Sari Altschuler: "After the Outbreak"

The UCD Environmental Humanities is pleased to present Dr. Sari Altschuler, Northeastern University, for our inaugural lecture in a short series on the Culture and Ecology of Pandemics.

“After the Outbreak: Narrative, Infrastructure, and Pandemic Time” examines the proliferation and failure of narratives accounting for life during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Key to that failure is a difficulty narrating the infrastructural causes of pandemics, a difficulty that has its roots in the nineteenth-century origins of modern global health. Finally, the talk will consider what we might learn from people who lived with truly global pandemics of this sort in the past.

Sari Altschuler is associate professor of English, associate director of the Humanities Center, and founding director of the Health, Humanities, and Society minor and initiative at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) and co-editor of Keywords for Health Humanities (under contract with NYU in the press’s Keywords series) with Jonathan Metzl and Priscilla Wald. Her work has appeared in Early American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, American Literature, American Literary History, PMLA, and Lancet.

Please note, this talk will take place at 4 pm, Irish Standard Time, which translates to 11 am Eastern Standard (US Time)

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