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Maria Vaccarella is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol, focusing on the intersection of literature and medicine. Her research delves into genres of illness narratives, emphasizing non-linear and non-triumphant plot structures. She is particularly interested in narrative medicine, critical disability studies, narrative bioethics, and comparative literature. Vaccarella is currently writing a monograph titled 'Biomedicine in Contemporary Western Literature'. Her work includes exploring narratological criticism in the context of illness narratives and conducting empirical research mapping the cultural contexts that shape literary and biomedical studies. She has collaborated with colleagues at the School of Clinical Sciences and the Bristol Heart Institute to incorporate narrative approaches in cardiology and has co-organized events to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. Vaccarella joined the University of Bristol in 2015, after a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at King's College London. She has garnered experience teaching literature and medical humanities at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Department of Physics research themes include Astrophysics, Materials and Devices, Particle Physics, and Quantum and Soft Matter.