International Health Humanities Network Membership

Andrea Charise is a Postdoctoral Fellow-in-Residence at the University of Iowa’s Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.  She received her PhD from Department of English at the University of Toronto where, over the course of her degree, she also participated in the transdisciplinary collaborative program “Health Care, Technology, and Place.” Dr. Charise’s interest in the literary study of older age stems from more than ten years of work experience as a clinical research associate in geriatric medicine, and her current book-in-progress explores how the "invention" of population in early 19th-century Britain impacted broader narrative representations of older age. Her research has been published in multiple venues including Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Academic Medicine, Essays in Romanticism, and English Literary History (ELH).

In 2011 she organized the three-day international conference, “Aging, Old Age, Memory, Aesthetics,” and co-edited the conference proceedings in a special issue of Stanford University’s open-access online scholarly journal Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (2012). Dr Charise is also the primary organizer of the upcoming event, "Health Humanities: Building the Future of Research and Teaching," taking place at the University of Iowa, April 4-5, 2014.

Click here to visit Dr. Charise's website and follow her on Twitter @AndreaCharise.