My research and teaching combine the history of science with literary and aesthetic research to shed historical light on the embodied dimensions of medicine, from the 19th century to present. My writing appears (or is forthcoming) in American Literature, LA Review of Books, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture Society, Nursing Clio, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and elsewhere.

I am currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Emory University, where I teach courses in the medical humanities and 19th-century literature. Prior to this, I was the 2025-26 Helen & Robert Appel Fellow in History & Technology at the New York Historical, where I conducted research on turn-of-the-century developments in oncology, and before that, Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. I am recipient of major grant awards from the Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and 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: leejasperse@gmail.com