International Health Humanities Network Membership

Jesse Miller is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, where he studies literary modernism and the history of science and medicine. His dissertation examines the aesthetic, ethical, and biopolitical implications of the practice of bibliotherapy, in which reading is used to produce or maintain states of mental health, and locates its origins in middlebrow and modernist culture of the U.S. inter-war period. He will be implementing an experimental bibliotherapy reading group project entitled “Reading for Health(Care)” at a Buffalo-area hospital during the 2015-2016 school year through funding from the New York Council of the Humanities. Jesse has published review essays on books related to modernism, media, and the history of science in Modernist Cultures (March 2015) and Configurations: Journal of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (Summer 2014). He is also the reviews editor for the online literature and culture magazine Full Stop (www.full-stop.net).