Priscilla Wald is a professor of English and Women's Studies at Duke University. Her current work focuses on the intersections among the law, literature, science, and medicine. She is currently completing a project on the public understanding of genome sciences. Post-lecture commentary will be offered by Amy Bix, Associate Professor of History, and Max Rothschild, Distinguished Professor of Animal Science. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series.
Priscilla Wald teaches and works on U.S. literature and culture, particularly literature of the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. She is especially interested in analyzing how the language, narratives and images in the popular media register and promote a particular understanding of the science that is steeped in (often misleading) cultural biases and assumptions. In her research, her teaching and her professional activities, she is committed to promoting conversations among scholars from science, medicine, law, and cultural studies in order to facilitate a richer understanding of these issues. Wald is the author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form. She is also associate editor of American Literature as well as on the advisory committee of the PMLA and the editorial board of Literature and Medicine. She is on the steering committee of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy; is a member of the internal advisory committee of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy; and is an affiliate of the Center for Medical Ethics and Humanities.
Cosponsored By:- Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
- Center for Integrated Animal Genomics
- Humanities Iowa
- IGERT Program
- Interdepartmental Genetics Program
- Monsanto
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB)
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