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Megan Coyer is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She received her PhD in Scottish Literature from the same institution in 2010, where her thesis was titled 'The Ettrick Shepherd Modern Pythagorean: Science Imagination Romantic Scotland'. Following her PhD, she worked as a Research Assistant on the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg and participated in the Abbotsford Library Annotations Project, funded by the Carnegie Trust. Coyer was awarded a Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Research Fellowship from 2012 to 2015 for her research project 'The Medical Blackwoodians Medico-literary Synergy Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press'. Her principal publication from this project was the monograph 'Literature Medicine Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858'. She co-edited the volume 'Scottish Medicine Literary Culture, 1726-1832'. As Co-Director of the Medical Humanities Research Centre, she initiated the Glasgow University Medical Humanities Network, which connects interdisciplinary work among scholars in medical humanities. Coyer's research focuses on intersections of literature and medicine in the nineteenth century, particularly within a Scottish context. She supervises PhD students and delivers various courses on medical humanities and literature at the University.