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Dr Hannah Tweed

Research Associate

hannah.tweed@york.ac.uk
http://https://york.academia.edu/HannahTweed

Biography

Hannah was awarded her PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2015 and was then employed as a Teaching Fellow and Research Assistant at Glasgow. Her thesis focused on representations of autism in contemporary literature and film, drawing on disability studies and work from within the medical humanities. She is currently working on the cultural and literary significance of lay medical knowledge and online communication in the twenty-first century. Hannah is the co-founder of the Disability Studies Network, and she built and ran the Medical Humanities Research Centre blogsite and Twitter account (@mhrcglasgow). She reviews regularly for Disability Studies Quarterly, H-Disability, and The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.

Hannah is now a Research Associate on the Cultures of Care Project (PI Alice Walker), based at the University of York, where she convenes the MA in Medical History and Humanities.

Research and Teaching Interests

Disability studies
Cognitive disabilities (esp. autism)
Modern and contemporary literature
Nursing narratives
Genre fiction
Life-writing
Paratexts
Care

Keywords:

• Care
• Disability studies
• Film and TV
• History of medicine
• Illness narratives
• Literature
• Literature and medicine
• Mental health
• Neuronovel
• Nursing
• Theatre
• Visual and material culture

Projects:

• Disability Studies, Genre, and Form
• Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts
• Medical Humanities Discussion Group

Teaching Materials:

• Course: Embodiments: Literature and Medicine 1750-1900 (English Literature, Victorian MLitt)
• Course: Literature and Medicine (English Literature, senior honours)
• Lecture: Disability and Narrative (English Literature, first year)

Units:

• College of Arts, School of Critical Studies