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My research interests include Victorian literature and culture; Transatlantic travel writing; Literature and medicine; Gender and empire; Postcolonial health humanities

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. (2017). Women, travel writing, and truth. Studies in Travel Writing. 21(1), 111-113.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • Howell, J. (2016). The Boy Doctor of Empire: Malaria and Mobility in Kipling's Kim.. Literature and Medicine. 34(1), 158-184.
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Books2
  • Howell, J (2018). Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire. Cambridge University Press.
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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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