Lucy Cogan
Lucy Cogan is Assistant Professor in Literature and Medical Humanities at University College Dublin and Principal Investigator of the Wellcome Trust funded project, “Drinking Cultures: The Cultural Reception of Medical Developments Related to Alcohol in Ireland, 1700-1900” (2023-28).
Her publications, including a monograph, an edited collection, and a range of articles and essays, cover topics such as prophetic vision in the works of William Blake, drunkenness and addiction in Irish literature, and women’s writing in the long-eighteenth century.
Katie Snow
Katie Snow is an interdisciplinary researcher in the critical medical humanities. Her main interests are in the body, gender, and cultural representations of health and illness. Katie is currently working on her first monograph about eighteenth-century caricatures of breasts, and is co-editing a collection of essays on humour and medicine titled Laughter is the Best Medicine: Visual Histories of Humour and Health. Her recent work on the intersections between art and medicine has been supported by fellowships from the Royal Historical Society, the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Wellcome Trust.
Fionnula Simpson
Fionnula Simpson completed her PhD at the University of Galway in 2023. Her thesis explored North American literary texts about mental illness through the lens of bibliotherapy. Fionnula published a chapter on suicidality and the work of Sylvia Plath in The Contemporary Writer and their Suicide (Springer, 2023). Her other research interests include disability and illness narratives, mad studies, and nineteenth century fiction.