Funded by GT FIRE Transformative Research and Education

Spring 2015 lunch panels and discussions (most in Hall 102, Fridays, noon-1:30 pm) open to any interested GT faculty, post doctoral fellows, students, staff.

Priscilla Wald teaches and works on U.S. literature and culture, contemporary narratives of science and medicine, science fiction literature and film, and environmental studies. Her books Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative and Human Being After Genocide focus on the intersections among law, literature, science, and medicine. She is the editor of American Literature, a member of the Editorial Board of Literature and Medicine, co-editor of a book series on nineteenth-century American Literature at NYU Press, Chair of the Faculty Board of Duke University Press and a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. She has served on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association and is the current MLA representative to the American Council of Learned Societies. Wald recently completed a term as President of the American Studies Association. She has a secondary appointment in Women's Studies, is on the steering committee of ISIS (Information Sciences + Information Studies), is a member of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, and is an affiliate of the Trent Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities and the Institute for Global Health.