SARA PRESS PhD
Director of Medicine & Society, The Honors College, University of Houston
PhD, English Literature & Science and Technology Studies, University of British Columbia
About Me
Dr. Sara Press is the Director of Medicine & Society in the Honors College at the University of Houston. Prior to this position, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the English Department at Emory University, and a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellow in Harvard’s Department of the History of Science. She completed her PhD in English Literature and Science and Technology Studies at the University of British Columbia, where she remains a UBC Public Scholar.
Her work sits at the intersection of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, History of Medicine, Science and Technology Studies, Postcolonial Theory, and Literary Theory. Her research examines racialized and gendered health inequalities in North American society through rhetorical, historical, and literary approaches. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Literature and Medicine, The Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, After the Crisis: Rhetorical Approaches to Shifting Credibility in Health and Environmental Science, History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Humanities, and Synapsis. She has been a contributing writer at Columbia University’s online health humanities journal, Synapsis, since 2019.
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