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.
- 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.
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.
researcher on
Principal Investigator3
awards and honors
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