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Professor Howell’s research engages health, race, gender, and nineteenth-century literatures within the context of empire and post/de-colonial studies. She has authored relevant monographs, including 'Exploring Victorian Travel Literature: Disease, Race, and Climate' published by Edinburgh University Press in 2014, and 'Malaria in Victorian Fictions of Empire' from Cambridge University Press in 2018. Her current book project, titled 'The Healthy Victorian Woman,' is supported by an Arts & Humanities Fellowship from 2021 to 2024. Professor Howell's collaborations reflect a commitment to expansive narratives in health humanities, notably through her T3 grant oral history project and as a co-editor of a special issue on 'Global Health Humanities' in the journal Medical Humanities. Additionally, she has been active in teaching courses on Victorian literature, medicine, and women’s travel writing. Between 2018 and 2022, she served as the Associate Director of the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, where she initiated vital conversations around the role of humanities in understanding issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. She is also involved with the Health Humanities Consortium and the Modern Language Association in various capacities.
Department: Department of Communication and Journalism. Ph.D. program only currently admitting. GRE is test-optional.