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Rebecca M. Rosen

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Rebecca M. Rosen

Rebecca M. Rosen

Assistant Professor of English
Coordinator, Medical and Health Humanities

7B-9 Faculty Hall

Education

  • PhD, Princeton University

  • MA, Princeton University

  • MSt, University of Oxford

  • BA, Barnard College, Columbia University

Highlighted Publications

  • Synapsis: An Online Health Humanities Journal, 7 April 2025.

  • 鈥淚nnocent Specimens: Depicting Enslaved Childhood through the Lusus Naturae," in Allison Giffen and Lucia Hodgson, eds., (Routledge, 28 February 2025).

  • Synapsis: An Online Health Humanities Journal, 16 July 2024.

  • ,鈥 Forum on Milestones in Black Studies, Early American Literature, 59.2, Spring 2024.

  • Invited Review, by Anne Myles (Final Thursday Press, 2022), Early American Literature, 59.1, Winter 2024.

  • , Synapsis: An Online Health Humanities Journal, 29 May 2023.

  •  Synapsis: An Online Health Humanities Journal, 17 March 2022.

  • 鈥溾楾he Voice of the innocent Blood cries aloud from the Ground to Heaven鈥: Speaking and Discovering Infanticide in the Early American Northeast,鈥 .

  •  Synapsis: An Online Health Humanities Journal, 14 February 2021. 

  • 鈥淐opying Hannah Griffitts: Poetic Circulation and the Quaker Community of Scribes,鈥 Michele Lise Tarter and Catie Gill, eds., New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women: 1650-1800 (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Courses Taught

Areas of Specialization

  • Multiethnic Early American Literature

  • Native American Literature

  • African American Literature

  • Literature and Medicine/Medical Humanities

Awards and Distinctions

  • Research Fellowship, Kentucky Historical Society, Awarded Fall 2024

  • Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2022, Awarded Fall 2023

  • AAS-NEH Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, February-May 2023 

  • Junior Scholar of the Month, Society of Early Americanists, January 2018

  • Helfand Medicine, Science and Society Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia, August 2017

  • McNeil Center for Early American Studies Consortium Dissertation Fellowship, 2016-2017

Leadership and Service

  • Coordinator, Medical and Health Humanities Minor and Certificate

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

  • The Society of Early Americanists

  • C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

  • Modern Language Association

 

 

 

 

 

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