My research and teaching combine archival research with cutting-edge theories of affect, expression & embodiment to shed historical light on the relationship between medicine, literature & embodiment. My writing appears in American Literature, LARB, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture Society, and elsewhere.

I am currently the Helen & Robert Appel Fellow in History & Technology at the New York Historical, where I am researching the turn-of-the-century developments in oncology for my book project, Anaesthetic Aesthetics: Cancer Writing Across Oncology’s Modernization. This book is the first history of cancer to place literature, patient narratives, and embodiment at its center. Prior to this, I was Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. I am recipient of major grant awards from the Mellon Foundation to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Education

Ph.D in English, The University of Chicago, 2023
M.A. in Psychology, NYU, 2017

email: leland.jasperse@nyhistory.org