International Health Humanities Network Membership

Kym Weed is a Teaching Assistnat Professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition, she is the Co-Director of the HHIVE Lab, a health humanities research lab, and the Associate Director of the English MA program concentration in Literature, Medicine, and Culture. As a scholar of American literature and health humanities, she researches the intersections of literature and science as well as narratives that shape experiences of illness, health, disability, and embodiment. Her book manuscript, “Our Microbes: Imagining Human Interdependence with Bacteria in American Literature, Science, and Culture, 1880-1930,” extends scholarship about the anxieties provoked by disease-causing germs to attend to the bacteriologists and fiction writers who located possibility in the microbial world. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in health humanities, disability studies, American literature, and writing.