Howell, Jessica
individual record
Professor
Positions:
- Associate Professor, English, College of Arts and Sciences
- Associate Director, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, College of Liberal Arts
- Professor, English, College of Arts and Sciences
overview
My research interests include Victorian literature and culture; Transatlantic travel writing; Literature and medicine; Gender and empire; Postcolonial health humanities
education and training
- Ph.D. in English, University of California, Davis - (Davis, California, United States) 2008
- M.A. in English, University of California, Davis - (Davis, California, United States) 2004
- B.A. in Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz - (Santa Cruz, California, United States) 2001
selected publications
Academic Articles14
- Jessica Howell (2017). Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright. Victorian studies. 59(3), 522-522.
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- Howell, J (2016). Jesse Oak Taylor. The Sky of our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf.. The Review of English Studies: the leading journal of English literature and language. hgw113-hgw113.
- Howell, J. M (2016). Nurse going native: Language and identity in letters from Africa and the British West Indies.. Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 51(1), 165-181.
- Howell, J. (2016). The Boy Doctor of Empire: Malaria and Mobility in Kipling's
Kim .. Literature and Medicine. 34(1), 158-184.
- Howell, J., Rafferty, A. M., Wall, R., & Snaith, A (2013). Nursing the tropics: nurses as agents of imperial hygiene.. Journal of Public Health. 35(2), 338-341.
- Howell, J. (2013). Nursing empire: travel letters from Africa and the Caribbean.. Studies in Travel Writing. 17(1), 62-77.
- Howell, J. (2012). Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge and Colonial Mobility, by Narin Hassan. Studies in Travel Writing. 16(3), 325-326.
- Howell, J. (2011). Louise Penner, Victorian Medicine and Social Reform: Florence Nightingale among the Novelists. Social History of Medicine. 24(2), 497-498.
- Matharu, K. S., Howell, J., & Fitzgerald, F (2011). Drama and Empathy in Medical Education. Literature Compass. 8(7), 443-454.
- Howell, J., Rafferty, A. M., & Snaith, A. (2011). (Author)ity abroad: the life writing of colonial nurses.. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 48(9), 1155-1162.
- Matharu, K. S., Howell, J., & Fitzgerald, F. T (2010). Fearlessly exploring the other: the role of drama in medical training.. Medical Humanities. 36(1), 58-59.
- Howell, J. (2010). MRS. SEACOLE PRESCRIBES HYBRIDITY: CONSTITUTIONAL AND MATERNAL RHETORIC IN WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF MRS. SEACOLE IN MANY LANDS. Victorian Literature and Culture. 38(1), 107-125.
- Howell, J. (2008). "Self rather seedy": climate and colonial pathography in Conrad's African fiction.. Literature and Medicine. 27(2), 223-247.
Books2
Chapters1
- Howell, J. (2019). Climate and Race in the Age of Empire. Johns-Putra, A. (Eds.), Climate and Literature. 163-178. Cambridge University Press.
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Principal Investigator3
awards and honors
recent teaching activities
- COMM107 Intro To Health Humanities Instructor
- COMM482 Health Humanities Sr Seminar Instructor
- ENGL107 Intro To Health Humanities Instructor
- ENGL232 Survey Of English Lit Ii Instructor
- ENGL292 Intro Literature & Medicine Instructor
Email
jmhowell@tamu.edu
First Name
Jessica
Last Name
Howell
mailing address
Texas A&M University; English; 4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227
USA
