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Priscilla Wald

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#4118

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#6634

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#1892

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Priscilla Wald's Degrees

PhD English University of California, Berkeley
Masters English University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors English University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Priscilla Wald is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Duke University and the author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form and Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative . She has published widely on the intersections of science, medicine, law, and literature. She is currently at work on a book-length study entitled Human Being After Genocide, which chronicles the challenge to conceptions of human being that emerged from scientific and technological innovation in the wake of the Second World War, as well as a series of essays that explore the impact of genomics on current thinking about categories of social, biological and political belonging and on the narrative of human history. Wald is the current editor of American Literature. She served as the president of the American Studies Association from 2011-2012.

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Priscilla Wald's Published Works

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Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (1998) (45)
Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean (2009) (38)
Minefields and Meeting Grounds: Transnational Analyses and American Studies (1998) (35)
American Studies and the Politics of Life (2012) (16)
Cultures and Carriers: "Typhoid Mary" and the Science of Social Control (1997) (15)
Becoming “Colored”: The Self-Authorized Language of Difference in Zora Neale Hurston (1990) (12)
Communicable Americanism: Contagion, Geographic Fictions, and the Sociological Legacy of Robert E. Park (2002) (10)
Introduction: Contagion and Culture (2002) (7)
Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges (2002) (7)
Cognitive estrangement, science fiction, and medical ethics (2008) (6)
Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants (2003) (4)
Immigration and assimilation in nineteenth-century US women's writing (2001) (4)
Imagined immunities (2018) (3)
We Have Never Been Biological (2009) (2)
Jonathan M. Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (2011) (2)
Christopher Hamlin, More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever (2016) (2)
Complaining, Conversing, and Coalescing (2000) (2)
Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War (2018) (1)
The “Hidden Tyrant” (2013) (1)
Imagined Immunities: The Epidemiology of Belonging (2007) (1)
Exquisite Fragility: Human Being in the Aftermath of War (2011) (1)
Science, Technology, and the Environment (2015) (1)
Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine (review) (2009) (1)
Nothing is sacred: Patenting life in Orphan Black (2018) (1)
Communicable Americanism: Social Contagion and Urban Spaces (2007) (0)
Language Matters (2021) (0)
Limitless Life and Devastated Living (2009) (0)
Reading Culture Through a Literary Lens (2011) (0)
25 years later: the Aswan High Dam has proven its worth (1996) (0)
Viral Cultures:: Microbes and Politics in the Cold War (2017) (0)
Ending on a Note of Fear (2018) (0)
Editorial (1999) (0)
Serials from the Other Side: An Editorial Perspective on Current Trends in Scholarly Communication (2013) (0)
Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: Race, Conflict, and Culture (review) (2014) (0)
The Healthy Carrier: “Typhoid Mary” and Social Being (2007) (0)
Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century (review) (2003) (0)
Geographics: Writing the Shtetl into the Ghetto (1999) (0)

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Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative