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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. (2017). Women, travel writing, and truth. Studies in Travel Writing. 21(1), 111-113.
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

Howell, J (2018). Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire. Cambridge University Press.
Howell, J (2014). Exploring Victorian Travel Literature Disease, Race and Climate.

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

Faculty Development Leave conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2016

recent teaching activities

ENGL665 Tpcs Cultl / Interdis Stud Instructor
ENGL685 Directed Studies Instructor
ENGL691 Research Instructor
ENGL691 Research: In-ab Instructor
ENGL695 Publication & Profession Instructor

jmhowell@tamu.edu

First Name

Jessica

Last Name

Howell

mailing address

Texas A&M University; English; 4227 TAMU

College Station, TX 77843-4227

USA

Research Areas:

Postcolonialism in literature, Literature--Women authors, Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920, Malaria, Literature, Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924, Culture--Study and teaching, Nineteenth century, Voyages and travels

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Chapters1

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