Priscilla Wald
R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English
Priscilla Wald teaches and works on U.S. literature and culture, particularly literature of the late-18th to mid-20th centuries, contemporary narratives of science and medicine, science fiction literature and film, law and literature, and environmental studies. Her current work focuses on the intersections among the law, literature, science and medicine. Her last book-length study, Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative, considers the intersection of medicine and myth in the idea of contagion and the evolution of the contemporary stories we tell about the global health problem of "emerging infections.” Wald is also the author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form and co-editor, with Michael Elliott, of volume 6 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English, The American Novel, 1870-1940. She is currently at work on a book-length study entitled Human Being After Genocide. This work chronicles the challenge to conceptions of human being that emerged from scientific and technological innovation in the wake of the Second World War and from the social and political thought of that period, which addressed the geopolitical transformations that followed the war and decolonization movements. Wald is interested in tracking how those debates found expression in what, following several historians, she calls a new mythistory (the term marks the mythic features of a collective history, or creation story). She tracks it through the rise of science fiction as a newly emergent mass genre and then turns to how it inflected the debates around the science and ethics of biotechnology as it became a multi-billion dollar industry. She is interested, in this project, in showing how beliefs and values circulate through mythistories as well as in how, why, and when mythistories become more visible and accessible to change. This project explores the particular importance of science, law, and religion to these stories and works to identify ideas of the sacred that we don’t typically identify as such. Wald is especially interested in analyzing how information emerging from research in the genome sciences circulates through mainstream media and popular culture, thereby shaping 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 how information circulates through language, images, and stories to shape lived experience. Wald's professional service includes: co-editor of American Literature, co-editor, with David Kazanjian and Elizabeth McHenry of the America in the Long Nineteenth Century book series at NYU Press, Chair of the Faculty Board of Duke University Press, member of the Editorial Boards of Penn Studies in Literature and Science and the journal Literature and Medicine, Senior Editor for American Literature, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, and co-director, with Sean Goudie, of the First Book Institute. She has served as President of the American Studies Association and on the National Council of that organization as well as on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association and as the MLA representative to the American Council of Learned Societies. Wald is currently Margaret Taylor Smith Director of the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and is on the Faculty Governance Committee of Science and Society and the steering committee of IS&S (Information Sciences + Information Studies) at Duke.
Office Hours
Fall 2022 Semester:
Mondays & Wednesdays 3:00-4:00 pm (Duke Garden if not raining and 327 Allen if raining) and by appointment
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
- Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006
- Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021
- Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2015
Contact Information
- 327B Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
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pwald@duke.edu
(919) 684-2741
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Columbia University 1989
- M.A., Columbia University 1981
- B.A., Yale University 1980
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Director of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2019
- Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2014 - 2015
- Director of the Language, Arts & Media Program (LAMP), English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2015
- Professor in Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2010
- Associate Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 - 2005
- Associate Professor in Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2005
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Awards & Honors
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Subject Headings
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Wald, P., and Michael Elliott. Oxford History of the Novel in English (American Novel 1870-1940). Vol. 6, 2014.
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Wald, P. Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. Duke University Press, 2008.
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Wald, P. Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form. Duke UP, 1995.
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Academic Articles
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Altschuler, S., and P. Wald. “Covid-19 and the language of racism.” Signs 47, no. 1 (September 1, 2021): 14–22.
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Wald, P. “Language Matters.” Women’S Studies 50, no. 8 (January 1, 2021): 863–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2021.1983814.Full Text
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Altschuler, S., and P. Wald. “COVID-19: Pandemic reading.” American Literature 92, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 681–88. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780887.Full Text
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Taylor, M. A., and P. Wald. “Xenopolitics.” American Quarterly 71, no. 3 (January 1, 2019): 895–902. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2019.0064.Full Text
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Wald, Priscilla. “Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War.” Journal of American History 105, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 212–212. https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jay111.Full Text
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Wald, Priscilla. “Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World.” Critical Inquiry 44, no. 3 (March 1, 2018): 613–14.Link to Item
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Wald, Priscilla. “Christopher Hamlin,More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever.” Social History of Medicine 29, no. 3 (August 2016): 663–64. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkw044.Full Text
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Wald, P. “The provincialism of time.” Early American Literature 50, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 63–80. https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2015.0016.Full Text
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Morgan, P. T., and P. Wald. “Preface: Thoreau symposium.” American Literature 85, no. 1 (March 1, 2013): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959517.Full Text
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Hudsona, P., D. Goldfield, R. L. Bailey, E. C. Hubal, and P. Wald. “Serials from the other side: An editorial perspective on current trends in scholarly communication.” Serials Review 39, no. 3 (January 1, 2013): 190–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/00987913.2013.10766393.Full Text
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Hudson, Patricia, David Goldfield, Robert Lee Bailey, Elaine Cohen Hubal, Priscilla Wald, and Doug Stewart. “Serials from the Other Side: An Editorial Perspective on Current Trends in Scholarly Communication.” Serials Review 39, no. 3 (2013): 190–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/00987913.2013.10766393.Full Text Link to Item
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Wald, P. “Botanophobia: Fear of Plants in the Atomic Age.” Japanese Journal of American Studies, 2013, 7–27.
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Wald, P. “American Studies and the Politics of Life: ASA Presidential Address.” American Quarterly 64 (2012): 185–204.
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Wald, P. “Exquisite Fragility: Human Being in the Aftermath of War,” October 12, 2011, 437–53. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444343809.ch27.Full Text
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Canavan, G., and P. Wald. “American Literature: Preface.” American Literature 83, no. 2 (June 1, 2011): 237–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266045.Full Text
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Wald, P. “Science Fiction.” Edited by P. Wald and G. Canavan. American Literature 83, no. 2 (June 2011).
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Wald, P. “Introduction to Science Fiction.” Edited by G. Canavan. American Literature 83, no. 2 (2011): 237–49.
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Wald, P. “"Science Fiction and Medical Ethics".” The Lancet 371 (June 2009): 9629–9629.
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Wald, P. ““We Have Never Been Biological,” Forum: Conference Debates. Biocultures: An Emerging Paradigm.” Pmla 124 (May 2009): 953–55.
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Rusert, B., and P. Wald. “American Literature: Introduction.” American Literature 81, no. 1 (April 27, 2009): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-048.Full Text
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Rusert, Britt, and P. Wald. “Introduction, Technologies of Enslavement and Liberty.” Edited by P. Wald and B. Rusert. American Literature 81 (March 2009).
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Wald, P. “"The Intimacies of Strangers".” Emisférica 6 (2009).
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Wald, Priscilla. “Cognitive estrangement, science fiction, and medical ethics.” Lancet (London, England) 371, no. 9628 (June 2008): 1908–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(08)60821-1.Full Text
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Wald, P., and J. Clayton. “Editors' preface: Genomics in literature, visual arts, and culture.” Literature and Medicine 26, no. 1 (January 1, 2007). https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2008.0009.Full Text
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Wald, P. “Blood and stories: How genomics is rewriting race, medicine and human history.” Patterns of Prejudice 40, no. 4–5 (September 1, 2006): 303–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313220601020064.Full Text
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Wald, P. “What's in a cell?: John Moore's spleen and the language of bioslavery.” New Literary History 36, no. 2 (January 1, 2005): 205–25. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2005.0038.Full Text
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Baker, H. A., and P. Wald. “Anniversaries and "whispering ambitions": American Literature at 75.” American Literature 76, no. 4 (December 1, 2004): 639–52. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-639.Full Text
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Wald, P. “Dreiser & The Fallen.” Edited by P. Wald. Woman Narrative, 2003.
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Dimock, W. C., and P. Wald. “Literature and science: Cultural forms, conceptual exchanges.” American Literature 74, no. 4 (December 1, 2002): 705–14. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-705.Full Text
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Dimock, W. C., and P. Wald. “Literature and science: Cultural forms, conceptual exchanges.” American Literature 74, no. 4 (December 1, 2002): 705–14. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-705.Full Text
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Wald, P. “Communicable Americanism: Contagion, geographic fictions, and the sociological legacy of Robert E. Park.” American Literary History 14, no. 4 (December 1, 2002): 653–85. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/14.4.653.Full Text
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Wald, P., N. Tomes, and L. Lynch. “Introduction: Culture and Contagion.” American Literary History 14, no. 4 (December 1, 2002): 617–24. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/14.4.617.Full Text
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Wald, P. “The Idea of America.” Encyclopedia of American Studies, 2001.
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Bauer, D. M., and P. Wald. “Complaining, conversing, and coalescing.” Signs 25, no. 4 (2000): 1299–1303. https://doi.org/10.1086/495564.Full Text Link to Item
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Wald, P. “Future Perfect: Genes, Grammar and Geography.” New Literary History 4 (2000): 681–708.
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Wald, P. “Geographics: Writing the Shtetl into the Ghetto.” Revista Canaria De Estudios Ingleses, November 1999, 209–27.
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Wald, P., C. DiStefano, and J. Weisenfeld. “Edititorial.” Institutions, Regulation, and Social Control, Signs 24, no. 4 (1999): 857–68.
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Wald, P. “Fabulous Shadows: Rethinking the Emersonian Tradition.” American Quarterly 50 (December 1998): 831–39.
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Wald, P. “Minefields and meeting grounds: Transnational analyses and American studies.” American Literary History 10, no. 1 (March 1, 1998): 199–218. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/10.1.199.Full Text
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Wald, P. “Fabulous Shadows: Rethinking the Emersonian Tradition, Review of John Carlos Rowe's At Emerson's Tomb.” American Quarterly 50, no. 4 (1998): 831–39.
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Wald, P. “Minefields and Meeting Grounds: Transnational Analyses and American Studies.” American Literary History 9, no. 1 (1997): 199–218.
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Wald, P. “Cultures and Carriers: ’Typhoid Mary’ and the Science of Social Control.” Social Text 52–53 (1997): 181–214.
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Wald, P. “Terms of Assimilation: Legislating Subjectivity in the Emerging Nation.” Boundary 2 19 (1992): 77–104.
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Wald, P. “A God Who Is Later a Terror: (En)countering the National Plot in Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans.” Prospects, 1992, 323–65.
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Wald, P. “Becoming "colored": The self-authorized language of difference in Zora Neale Hurston.” American Literary History 2, no. 1 (March 1, 1990): 79–100. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/2.1.79.Full Text
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Wald, P. “Guilt by Dissociation: John Yau’s Poetics of Possibility.” Talisman 5 (1990): 121–26.
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Wald, P. “Hearing Narrative Voices in Melville’s Pierre.” Boundary 2 17 (1990): 100–132.
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Book Sections
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Wald, P. “Viral cultures: Microbes and politics in the cold war.” In Zombie Theory: A Reader, 33–62, 2017.
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Wald, P. “Replicant being: Law and strange life in the age of biotechnology.” In New Directions in Law and Literature, 344–58, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190456368.003.0021.Full Text
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Wald, P. “The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900.” edited by K. Cole, R. Bauer, Z. Nunes, and C. Patterson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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Wald, P. “Science, Technology, and the Environment.” In The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction, edited by G. Canavan and E. Link, 179–93, 2015.
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Wald, P. “Science and Literature in America.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in America, edited by Hugh Slotten, Steve Usselman, and Constance Clark, 2014.
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Wald, P. “Afterword: Global Health and the Persistence of History.” In Imperial Contagions: Medicine and Cultures of Planning in Asia, edited by Robert Peckham and David Pomfret, 215–25. University of Hong Kong Press, 2013.
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Wald, P. “Immigrant Literature and the Immigrant Experience.” In Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration, edited by Elliott Barkan, 1839–55. ABC-Clio, 2013.
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Wald, P. “The ‘Hidden Tyrant’: Propaganda, Brainwashing, and Psycho-Politics in the Cold War Period.” In Oxford Handbook of Propaganda Studies, edited by Jonathan Auerbach and Russ Castronovo, 109–30. Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Wald, P. “Afterword.” In Contagionism and Contagious Diseases: Medicine and Literature between 1880 and 1933, edited by Thomas Rutten and Martina King, 225–32. De Gruyter, 2013.
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Wald, P. “Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa’s Journey from Labs to Literature.” In Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of Race, DNA and History, edited by Keith Wailoo, Alondra Nelson, and Catherine Lee, 247–65. Rutgers University Press, 2012.
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Wald, P. ““Science Fiction: Stories of Warning and Wonder,”.” In Cambridge History of the American Novel, edited by L. Cassuto, C. Eby, and B. Reiss, 832–46, 2011.
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Wald, P. “Atomic Faulkner.” In Faulkner’s Inheritance, edited by Joseph Urgo. University of Mississippi Press, 2007.
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Wald, P. “Naturalization.” In Keywords of American Cultural Studies, edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. NYU Press, 2007.
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Wald, P. ““Geonomics: the Spaces and Races of Citizenship in the Genome Age”.” In America–From Near and Far: Varieties of American Experience, edited by Marc Lee Raphael and Cornelia Wilhelm. Department of Religion, William and Mary College, 2007.
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cooke, M. “Foreword.” In Arab Women’s Lives Retold: Exploring Identity through Writing. University Press, 2007.
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cooke, M. “Foreword.” In Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality, edited by S. Husain. Seal, 2006.
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Wald, P. ““Dreiser’s Sociological Vision”.” In The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser, edited by Leonard Cassuto and Claire Virginia Eby. Cambridge UP, 2004.
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Wald, P. “Hannah crafts.” In In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman’s Narrative, edited by Jr Henry Louis Gates and Hollis Robbins. Basic Books, 2004.
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Wald, P. “Of crucibles and grandfathers: The East European immigrants.” In The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature, 50–69, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521792932.004.Full Text
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Wald, P. “Introduction to Paula Treichler’s AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification.” In American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader, edited by Michael A Elliott P Wald and Claudia Stokes, 182–84. New York: New York UP, 2003.
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Wald, P. “The East European Immigrants: Of Crucibles and Grandfathers.” In The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature, edited by Michael Kramer and Hana Wirth Nesher. Cambridge UP, 2003.
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Wald, P. “Hannah crafts.” In Critical Essays on Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative, edited by Jr Henry Louis Gates and Hollis Robbins. Basic Books, 2003.
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Curzan, A., and P. Wald. “Americanization.” In Encyclopedia of American Studies. Grolier, 2001.
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Wald, P. “Immigration and Assimilation in Nineteenth-Century US Women’s Narratives.” In The Cambridge Companion to 19th-Century American Women’s Writing, edited by Dale Bauer and Philip Gould, 176–99. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
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Wald, P. “Emma Goldman.” In American Women Prose Writers 1870-1920: Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by Sharon Harris, Heidi L. Jacobs, and Jennifer Putzi, Vol. 221. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000.
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Wald, P. “Imagined Immunities.” In Cultural Studies & Political Theory, edited by J. Dean, 189–208. Cornell UP, 2000.
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Wald, P., and M. Patterson. “Themes, Topics and Criticism.” In Ameican Literary Scholarship 1997, 399–423. Duke UP, 1999.
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Wald, P. “Zora Neale Hurston.” In A Companion to American Thought, edited by Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg. Blackwell Publishers, 1995.
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Wald, P. “’Chaos Goes Uncourted’: John Yau’s Dis-orienting Poetics.” In Cohesion and Dissent in America, edited by Joseph Alkana and Carol Colatrella, 133–58. SUNY Press, 1994.
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Wald, P. “Dreiser and the Fallen Woman Narrative.” In The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser. Duke UP, 1993.
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Wald, P. “William Peterfield Trent.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography: Nineteenth Century American Literary Critics and Scholars. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli-Clark, Inc, 1989.
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Solomon, Harris. “Wound (Accepted).” In Keywords for Health Humanities, edited by Priscilla Wald, Sari Altschuler, and Jonathan Metzl, n.d.
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Wald, P. “Science and Technology (In preparation).” In Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory, edited by I. Szeman, S. Blacker, and J. Sully. Wiley-Blackwell, n.d.
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Wald, P. “Biological Evolution, keyword entry (Accepted).” In Fueling Culture: Energy, History, Politics, edited by I. Szeman. Fordham University Press, n.d.
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Wald, P. “Natural Disaster (Accepted).” In Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture, edited by J. Adamson, W. A. Gleason, and D. Pellow. New York University Press, n.d.
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Other Articles
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Wald, Priscilla. “Review of Jonathan Metzal's he Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease.” Social History of Medicine, April 2011. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkr027.Full Text Link to Item
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Wald, Priscilla. “Review of Susan Mizruchi's The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915.” Novel a Forum on Fiction, 2011.Link to Item
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Wald, Priscilla. “Review of Cynthia H. Tolentino's America's Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology.” Novel a Forum on Fiction, 2011.Link to Item
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Wald, P. “Review of Ian Whitmarsh's Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean.” Social History of Medicine, August 1, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkp032.Full Text
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Wald, Priscilla. “Review of Heather Munro Prescott's Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2009.Link to Item
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Wald, P. “Review of Ann L. Ardis and Leslie W. Lewis’ Women’s Experience of Modernity: 1875-1945.” Modernism/Modernity, 2005.
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Wald, P. “Review of Laura Otis’ Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2003.
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Wald, P. “Review of Lawrie Balfour’s The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy.” The Review of Politics, 2001.
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Wald, P. “Review of Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky, eds.’s "’Bad’ Mothers: The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America".” Left History, 2001.
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Wald, P. “Review of Nancy Tomes' The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women and the Microbe at the Turn of the Century.” Modernism Modernity, 2000.Link to Item
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Wald, P. “Review of John Carlos Rowe’s The Other Henry James.” New England Quarterly, 2000.
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Stefano, C Di, and J. Weisenfeld. “Institutions, Regulations and Social Control.” Special Issue of Signs, 1999.
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Wald, P. “Review of Trudier Harris’ The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller’s Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan.” American Literature, March 1998.
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Wald, P. “Review of Walter Benn Michaels’ Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism.” Modern Language Quarterly, March 1998.
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Wald, P. “Review of Richard M. Merelman’s Representing Black Culture: Racial Conflict and Cultural Politics in the United States.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1997.
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Wald, P. “Review of Genevieve Fabre and Robert O'Meally's History and Memory in African-American Culture.” American Literature, March 1996.
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Wald, P. “Review of Nina Schwartz’s Dead Fathers: The Logic of Transference in Modern Narrative.” Clio, 1996.
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Wald, P. “Review of Lee Quinby’s Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism.” American Literature, June 1995.
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Wald, P. “Review of Mark Twain’s Pudd’n’head Wilson: Race, Conflict, and Culture.” Studies in American Fiction, 1995.
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Wald, P. “Review of Kathleen Diffley’s Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861-1876.” Journal of American History, June 1994.
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Wald, P. “Review of Paula Gunn Allen’s A Cannon Between My Knees.” Studies in American Indian Literature, 1985.
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Wald, P. “Review of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller.” Studies in American Indian Literature, 1982.
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Applewhite, James. “Science Fiction.” Poetry, June 1981. https://doi.org/10.2307/20594255.Full Text
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Tomes, N., and L. Lynch. “Culture and Contagion.” Special Issue of American Literary History, n.d.
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Wald, Anne, J. Clayton, and K. F. C. Holloway. “Genomics in Literature, the Visual Arts, and Culture.” Literature and Medicine, n.d.
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Wald, P. “Jagged Edges: Reading Culture Through a Literary Lens, review of Susan Mizruchi, The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and print Culture 1865-1915 and Cynthia H. Tolentino, America's Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction. Duke University Press, n.d.
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Conference Papers
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Wald, Priscilla. “BIO TERROR Hybridity in the Biohorror Narrative, or What We Can Learn from Monsters.” In Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty, edited by B. Magnusson and Z. Zalloua, 99–122. UNIV WASHINGTON PRESS, 2012.Link to Item
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Clayton, J., L. J. Davis, J. M. Metzl, P. Wald, and B. L. Hausman. “Forum: Conference debates - Biocultures: An emerging paradigm.” In Pmla, 124:947–56, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.3.947.Full Text
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- ENGLISH 493: Research Independent Study 2023
- ENGLISH 497: Distinction Critical Research Independent Study 2023
- ENGLISH 890T: Tutorial in Special Topics 2023
- DOCST 290S: Special Topics in Documentary Studies 2022
- ENGLISH 101S: The Art of Reading 2022
- ENGLISH 490S: Special Topics in Language and Literature 2022
- ENGLISH 491: Independent Study 2022
- ENGLISH 497: Distinction Critical Research Independent Study 2022
- ENGLISH 498: Distinction Critical Research Independent Study 2022
- ENVIRON 390S: Special Topics in Environmental Sciences and Policy 2022
- PUBPOL 290S: Selected Public Policy Topics 2022
- SCISOC 290S: Special Topics in Genome Sciences 2022
- ARTHIST 238: Science Fiction Film 2021
- DOCST 290: Special Topics in Documentary Studies 2021
- ENGLISH 386: Science Fiction Film 2021
- ENGLISH 490: Special Topics in Language and Literature 2021
- ENGLISH 498: Distinction Critical Research Independent Study 2021
- ENGLISH 890S: Special Topics Seminar 2021
- ENVIRON 390: Special Topics in Environmental Sciences and Policy 2021
- PUBPOL 290: Selected Public Policy Topics 2021
- SCISOC 290: Topics in Science & Society 2021
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- Botanophobia: Fear of Plants in the Age of the Anthropocene. December 19, 2013 2013
- Redefining Life: Biotechnology and the Cold War. December 17, 2013 2013
- From Civil Rights to Black Power: Martin Luther King and the Second Indo-China War,”. December 16, 2013 2013
- Public Ritual and the Cold War: McCarthy and the Crucible. December 15, 2013 2013
- Keynote Address, China in the US Viral Imaginary. December 9, 2013 2013
- Plenary Address, The Politics of Health. October 3, 2013 2013
- Keynote, What is Human Now?’: the Science Fiction of Henrietta Lacks and Other Tales from the Lab. June 1, 2013 2013
- Botanophobia: Fear of Plants in the Atomic Age. April 1, 2013 2013
- What is Human Now?’: the Science Fiction of Henrietta Lacks and Other Tales from the Lab. March 7, 2013 2013
- Outbreak: Contagion, Sensation, and the Obscured Geography of Poverty. March 2, 2013 2013
- Workshop, Human Being After Genocide. March 1, 2013 2013
- From Cell Lines to Story Lines: The Science Fiction of Henrietta Lacks. February 7, 2013 2013
- From Cell Lines to Story Lines: the Science Fiction of Henrietta Lacks and Other Tales from the Lab. January 1, 2013 2013
- How Do You Know You’re Human?: Bioslavery in the Moment of Biotechnology. January 1, 2013 2013
- Keynote Panel, Public Scholarship. January 1, 2013 2013
- Keynote, 'What is Human Now?’: Species Identity in the Age of Biotechnology. January 1, 2013 2013
- Biophobia: Fear of Life in an Age of Biotechnology. January 3, 2012 2012
- Biophobia: Fear of Life in the Atomic Age. January 3, 2012 2012
- Botanophobia: Fear of Plants in the Atomic Age. January 3, 2012 2012
- Cells, Race, and Stories: Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa Cell Line. January 3, 2012 2012
- Clones, Chimeras, and Other Creatures of the Biotechnology Revolution: Toward a New Creation Story. January 3, 2012 2012
- Danger from Within: the Nuclear Family and the Drama of the Unconscious in the Cold War. January 3, 2012 2012
- From the Cold War to Star Wars: Vietnam and the New Myth of America. January 3, 2012 2012
- How Do You Know You’re Human?: Bioslavery in the Moment of Biotechnology. January 3, 2012 2012
- Human Being After Genocide. January 3, 2012 2012
- Human Being Under the Microscope: From Science to Science Fiction in the Cold War. January 3, 2012 2012
- Human Being Under the Microscope: From Science to Science Fiction in the Cold War. January 3, 2012 2012
- Race, Cells, and Monstrosity: Biotechnology in Popular Culture. January 3, 2012 2012
- Race, Cells, and Monstrosity: Biotechnology in Public Discourse. January 3, 2012 2012
- The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty. January 3, 2012 2012
- The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty. January 3, 2012 2012
- The Politics of Fear and the Antidote of Abstraction: Art in the Cold War. January 3, 2012 2012
- Viral Visions: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty. January 3, 2012 2012
- Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa’s Journey from Labs to Literature. November 1, 2011 2011
- Presidential Address, Cells, Stories, and Social Justice. October 19, 2011 2011
- Keynote, Contagion and the Global City. September 15, 2011 2011
- Keynote, Science and Religion in America. September 12, 2011 2011
- Literary Contagion. August 28, 2011 2011
- Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Towards a Genomic Creation Myth. April 15, 2011 2011
- Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa’s Journey From Labs to Literature. April 12, 2011 2011
- Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Or, What Can We Learn from Our Monsters. January 10, 2011 2011
- Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology. September 10, 2010 2010
- keynote, Humanity’s Borders: Cells, Genes, and Stories. May 25, 2010 2010
- keynote address, Human Being After Genocide: Cells, Genes, and Stories. April 15, 2010 2010
- Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology. March 5, 2010 2010
- Bio Terror: From Microbes to Monsters in the Outbreak Narrative. February 25, 2010 2010
- The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty. December 11, 2009 2009
- Human Being After Genocide: Cells, Genes, and Stories. November 1, 2009 2009
- Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology. May 1, 2009 2009
- Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology. Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities (Lecture Series). May 1, 2009 2009
- Contagious. May 1, 2009 2009
- Cells, Genes, and Stories: Human Being Under the Microscope in the Aftermath of War. April 1, 2009 2009
- Humanity's Borders: The View From Space. April 1, 2009 2009
- Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology. March 1, 2009 2009
- Public Matters: the Work of Art and Story in an Age of Biotechnology. March 1, 2009 2009
- Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology. February 1, 2009 2009
- Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology. January 1, 2009 2009
- The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty. January 1, 2009 2009
- Blood and Stories: Two Cultures in the Classroom. January 22, 2008 2008
- Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology. January 21, 2008 2008
- Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology. January 21, 2008 2008
- Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology. January 21, 2008 2008
- Outbreak Narrative. January 21, 2008 2008
- Speaker. January 21, 2008 2008
- Speaker. January 21, 2008 2008
- Speaker. January 21, 2008 2008
- The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of. January 21, 2008 2008
- Writing Science From the Humanities. January 21, 2008 2008
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
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Service to the Profession
- Co-Director, First Book Institute, Center for American Literary Studies, Pennsylvania State University. June 10, 2013 - June 14, 2013 2013
- MLA Delegate for the American Council of Learned Societies. 2011 2011
- President and Immediate Past Present, American Studies Association. 2011 - 2013 2011 - 2013
- Advisory Board, Centre for Humanities and Medicine, University of Hong Kong. 2010 2010
- Member, Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program Fellowship Board. 2010 2010
- Pool of Supervisors, Finnish Gender Studies Doctoral Program. 2010 2010
- National Council, American Studies Association. 2009 2009
- Program Committee, American Studies Association (for 2010 convention). 2009 - 2010 2009 - 2010
- Selection Committee, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowships (Mellon/ACLS Early Career Fell. 2009 2009
- Advisory Board, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. January 21, 2008 2008
- Advisory Board, C19 (Society for the Study of 19th Century American Literature). 2008 - January 27, 2009 2008 - 2009
- series co-editor, "America and the Long Nineteenth Century" : NYU Press. 2008 2008
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