Priscilla Wald

From Civil Rights to Black Power: Martin Luther King and the Second Indo-China War,” · December 16, 2013 Lecture National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

Public Ritual and the Cold War: McCarthy and the Crucible · December 15, 2013 Lecture National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

Keynote Address, China in the US Viral Imaginary · December 9, 2013 Lecture Centre for Humanities and Medicine, Hong Kong University

Plenary Address, The Politics of Health · October 3, 2013 Lecture Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University

Keynote, What is Human Now?’: the Science Fiction of Henrietta Lacks and Other Tales from the Lab · June 1, 2013 Lecture Duke Department of Pediatrics Research Retreat

Botanophobia: Fear of Plants in the Atomic Age · April 1, 2013 Lecture University of Pittsburgh

What is Human Now?’: the Science Fiction of Henrietta Lacks and Other Tales from the Lab · March 7, 2013 Lecture Gender Studies, Northwestern University

Outbreak: Contagion, Sensation, and the Obscured Geography of Poverty · March 2, 2013 Lecture Humanities Center, University of Illinois, Chicago

Workshop, Human Being After Genocide · March 1, 2013 Lecture Brigham Young University

From Cell Lines to Story Lines: The Science Fiction of Henrietta Lacks · February 7, 2013 Lecture Boston College

How Do You Know You’re Human?: Bioslavery in the Moment of Biotechnology · January 1, 2013 Lecture Carleton University

From Cell Lines to Story Lines: the Science Fiction of Henrietta Lacks and Other Tales from the Lab · January 1, 2013 Lecture Production of Literature Speaker Series, Carleton University

Keynote Panel, Public Scholarship · January 1, 2013 Lecture Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Keynote, 'What is Human Now?’: Species Identity in the Age of Biotechnology · January 1, 2013 Lecture Unity, Division, and the Making of American Identity, Eastern ASA conference, Harrisonburg, VA

Biophobia: Fear of Life in the Atomic Age · January 3, 2012 Lecture Presidential Address, Japanese Association for American Studies, Nagoya, Japan

The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty · January 3, 2012 Lecture ESRC Genomics Research and Policy Forum and the Medical Humanities Research Network, University of Edinburgh

How Do You Know You’re Human?: Bioslavery in the Moment of Biotechnology · January 3, 2012 Lecture Keynote, Health and Illness in Culture, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan

Human Being Under the Microscope: From Science to Science Fiction in the Cold War · January 3, 2012 Lecture National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

Botanophobia: Fear of Plants in the Atomic Age · January 3, 2012 Lecture National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

Danger from Within: the Nuclear Family and the Drama of the Unconscious in the Cold War · January 3, 2012 Lecture National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

From the Cold War to Star Wars: Vietnam and the New Myth of America · January 3, 2012 Lecture National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

Biophobia: Fear of Life in an Age of Biotechnology · January 3, 2012 Lecture Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Clones, Chimeras, and Other Creatures of the Biotechnology Revolution: Toward a New Creation Story · January 3, 2012 Lecture Sogang University and Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Viral Visions: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty · January 3, 2012 Lecture Kaynote Address, Speculative Futures, U Calif at Santa Barbara

Race, Cells, and Monstrosity: Biotechnology in Public Discourse · January 3, 2012 Lecture University of Manchester

The Politics of Fear and the Antidote of Abstraction: Art in the Cold War · January 3, 2012 Lecture National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

Race, Cells, and Monstrosity: Biotechnology in Popular Culture · January 3, 2012 Lecture Taking Good Care: A History of Health and Wellness in the Black Community, 32nd Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, Rutgers Newark (for MLK Day)

Human Being After Genocide · January 3, 2012 Lecture Futures of Literary and Cultural Studies speakers series, University of California at Los Angeles

Cells, Race, and Stories: Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa Cell Line · January 3, 2012 Lecture Science and Social Justice, and the Center for Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Sociology, University of California at Santa Cruz

Human Being Under the Microscope: From Science to Science Fiction in the Cold War · January 3, 2012 Lecture public address, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan

The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty · January 3, 2012 Lecture Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea

Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa’s Journey from Labs to Literature · November 1, 2011 Lecture Revolutionizing American Studies speakers series, CUNY Graduate Center

Presidential Address, Cells, Stories, and Social Justice · October 19, 2011 Lecture American Studies Association Convention, Baltimore, Md

Keynote, Contagion and the Global City · September 15, 2011 Lecture Miami University, Ohio

Keynote, Science and Religion in America · September 12, 2011 Lecture Princeton University

Literary Contagion · August 28, 2011 Lecture Contagionism and Contagious Diseases in Medicine and Literature, 1880-1930, Newcastle University

Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Towards a Genomic Creation Myth · April 15, 2011 Lecture Science and Society series, University of British Columbia

Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa’s Journey From Labs to Literature · April 12, 2011 Lecture University of Washington

Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Or, What Can We Learn from Our Monsters · January 10, 2011 Lecture Hiram College

Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology · September 10, 2010 Lecture Misercordia College

keynote, Humanity’s Borders: Cells, Genes, and Stories · May 25, 2010 Lecture Christina Conference, Helsinki University, Finland

keynote address, Human Being After Genocide: Cells, Genes, and Stories · April 15, 2010 Lecture Bios Symposium, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana

Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology · March 5, 2010 Lecture College of Charleston

Bio Terror: From Microbes to Monsters in the Outbreak Narrative · February 25, 2010 Lecture global studies symposium on contagion, Whitman College

The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty · December 11, 2009 Lecture Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong University

Human Being After Genocide: Cells, Genes, and Stories · November 1, 2009 Lecture Brown University

Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology - Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities (Lecture Series) · May 1, 2009 Invited Talk

Contagious · May 1, 2009 Lecture Columbia University Medical School, Grand Rounds, Narrative Medicine

Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology · May 1, 2009 Lecture Columbia University Medical School

Cells, Genes, and Stories: Human Being Under the Microscope in the Aftermath of War · April 1, 2009 Lecture Ward-Phillips Lecture Series, Notre Dame

Humanity's Borders: The View From Space · April 1, 2009 Lecture Ward-Phillips Lecture Series, Notre Dame

Public Matters: the Work of Art and Story in an Age of Biotechnology · March 1, 2009 Lecture keynote address, “Public Matters in American Literary and Cultural Studies,” Princeton University

Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology · March 1, 2009 Lecture Second Annual Walter J. Ong, S.J., Memorial Lecture and Inaugural Lecture, Medical Humanities Program, St. Louis University

Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology · February 1, 2009 Lecture Brown University

Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology · January 1, 2009 Lecture Trent History of Medicine Series, Duke University

The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty · January 1, 2009 Lecture Geography Colloquium, University of North Carolina

Blood and Stories: Two Cultures in the Classroom · January 22, 2008 Lecture Modern Language Association (Presidential Forum)

Speaker · January 21, 2008 Lecture Genomics on TV, Durham, NC

The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of · January 21, 2008 Lecture Keynote Address, Association of University Anesthesiologists Annual Convention

Outbreak Narrative · January 21, 2008 Lecture Grand Rounds, Infectious Disease, Duke University

Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology · January 21, 2008 Lecture Penn State University

Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology · January 21, 2008 Lecture keynote address, Futures of American Studies, University of Florida

Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnical Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology · January 21, 2008 Lecture Washington University

Writing Science From the Humanities · January 21, 2008 Lecture University of Idaho

Speaker · January 21, 2008 Lecture Transnational Futures Symposium, University of Pennsylvania

Speaker · January 21, 2008 Lecture Race and DNA Invited Conference, Rutgers University

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader - DECIPHER: Case Studies in Drinking Water Quality · 2018 - 2019 Projects & Field Work

Primary Theme: Energy & Environment

The technologies, processes and products we develop have impacts on the environment and our health. Some impacts are intended, and some are not. The policies adopted to regulate the risks of such developments may themselves pose unintended consequences. We can point to examples of product and policy advances intended to deliver benefits by minimizing one target risk, only to uncover later that unanticipated consequences created new risks. These complexities pose challenges for both private innovation and public oversight. They also present opportunities to improve understanding and decision-making. An important step in enabling such improvements is to understand the interconnected physical, economic, legal and cultural factors along the lifecycle of a set of decisions related to characterizing and managing risks.

Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Decisions on Complex Interdisciplinary Problems of Health and Environmental Risk · August 2017 - May 2018 Projects & Field Work flag

United States of America

Service to the Profession

Co-Director, First Book Institute, Center for American Literary Studies, Pennsylvania State University · June 10, 2013 - June 14, 2013 Other

President and Immediate Past Present, American Studies Association · 2011 - 2013 Other

MLA Delegate for the American Council of Learned Societies · 2011 Other

Member, Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program Fellowship Board · 2010 Other

Advisory Board, Centre for Humanities and Medicine, University of Hong Kong · 2010 Other

Pool of Supervisors, Finnish Gender Studies Doctoral Program · 2010 Other

Selection Committee, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowships (Mellon/ACLS Early Career Fell · 2009 Other

National Council, American Studies Association · 2009 Other

Program Committee, American Studies Association (for 2010 convention) · 2009 - 2010 Other

Advisory Board, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies · January 21, 2008 Other

series co-editor, "America and the Long Nineteenth Century" : NYU Press · 2008 Other

Advisory Board, C19 (Society for the Study of 19th Century American Literature) · 2008 - January 27, 2009 Other