selected publications academic article Jessica Howell (2017). Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright. Victorian Studies. 59(3), 522-522. Howell, J. (2017). Women, travel writing, and truth. Studies in Travel Writing. 21(1), 111-113. Howell, J (2016). Jesse Oak Taylor. The Sky of our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf. The Review of English Studies: the leading journal of English literature and language. hgw113-hgw113. Howell, J. M (2016). Nurse going native: Language and identity in letters from Africa and the British West Indies. Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 51(1), 165-181. Howell, J. (2016). The Boy Doctor of Empire: Malaria and Mobility in Kipling's Kim. Literature and Medicine. 34(1), 158-184. Howell, J., Rafferty, A. M., Wall, R., & Snaith, A (2013). Nursing the tropics: nurses as agents of imperial hygiene. Journal of Public Health. 35(2), 338-341. Howell, J. (2013). Nursing empire: travel letters from Africa and the Caribbean. Studies in Travel Writing. 17(1), 62-77. Howell, J. (2012). Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge and Colonial Mobility, by Narin Hassan. Studies in Travel Writing. 16(3), 325-326. Howell, J. (2011). Louise Penner, Victorian Medicine and Social Reform: Florence Nightingale among the Novelists. Social History of Medicine. 24(2), 497-498. Matharu, K. S., Howell, J., & Fitzgerald, F (2011). Drama and Empathy in Medical Education. Literature Compass. 8(7), 443-454. Howell, J., Rafferty, A. M., & Snaith, A. (2011). (Author)ity abroad: the life writing of colonial nurses. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 48(9), 1155-1162. Matharu, K. S., Howell, J., & Fitzgerald, F. T (2010). Fearlessly exploring the other: the role of drama in medical training. Medical Humanities. 36(1), 58-59. Howell, J. (2010). MRS. SEACOLE PRESCRIBES HYBRIDITY: CONSTITUTIONAL AND MATERNAL RHETORIC IN WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF MRS. SEACOLE IN MANY LANDS. Victorian Literature and Culture. 38(1), 107-125. Howell, J. (2008). "Self rather seedy": climate and colonial pathography in Conrad's African fiction. Literature and Medicine. 27(2), 223-247. book Howell, J (2018). Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire. Cambridge University Press. Howell, J (2014). Exploring Victorian Travel Literature Disease, Race and Climate chapter Howell, J. (2019). Climate and Race in the Age of Empire. Johns-Putra, A. (Eds.), Climate and Literature. (pp. 163-178). Cambridge University Press.
principal investigator on T3 award, “The Global Health Humanities,” awarded by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2018 - 2020 Glasscock Faculty Fellowship, for research in postcolonial nursing narratives awarded by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2018 - 2019 Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Working Group and then Seminar to convene a research group in the Medical Humanities awarded by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2015
teaching activities COMM107 Intro To Health Humanities Instructor COMM482 Health Humanities Sr Seminar Instructor ENGL107 Intro To Health Humanities Instructor ENGL232 Survey Of English Lit Ii Instructor ENGL292 Intro Literature & Medicine Instructor ENGL322 19th Cen Lit-victorian Instructor ENGL378 Brit Novel 1870-present Instructor ENGL395 Topics In Lit & Medicine Instructor ENGL481 Sr Sem: 19th Cen Travel & Body Instructor ENGL481 Sr Sem:19th Cent Travel&body Instructor ENGL482 Health Humanities Sr Seminar Instructor ENGL485 Directed Studies Instructor ENGL491 Hnr-research Instructor ENGL497 Hnr-indpdnt Hnr Studies: In-ab Instructor ENGL645 Tpcs Gender Lit & Cultur Instructor ENGL653 Topics 20&21 C Lit&cultur Instructor ENGL665 Tpcs Cultl / Interdis Stud Instructor ENGL685 Directed Studies Instructor ENGL691 Research Instructor ENGL695 Publication & Profession Instructor HHUM107 Intro To Health Humanities Instructor HHUM482 Health Humanities Sr Seminar Instructor HIST107 Intro To Health Humanities Instructor
education and training Ph.D. in English, University of California, Davis - (Davis, California, United States) 2008 M.A. in English, University of California, Davis - (Davis, California, United States) 2004 B.A. in Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz - (Santa Cruz, California, United States) 2001
awards and honors Faculty Development Leave, conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States), 2016