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  Priscilla Wald, Associated
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  Priscilla WaldProfessor, English

Office Location:  327B Allen Building
Office Phone:  684-6869
Email Address:  send me a message

Education:

  • Ph.D. Columbia University 1989
  • Special Candidate, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research Columbia University 1987
  • M.A. Columbia University 1981
  • B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, distinction in the English major Yale University 1980

Specialties:

American Literature
Literature and Medicine
Literature and Science
Literature and Law
Gender & Sexuality Studies
African American Literature
Representative Publications   (More Publications)
  1. P. Wald. Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative.  Duke University Press, 2008.
  2.  Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form.  Duke UP, 1995. (second printing, 1998)
  3. P. Wald. "“Geonomics: the Spaces and Races of Citizenship in the Genome Age”." America--From Near and Far: Varieties of American Experience  (forthcoming, 2008).
  4. "Blood and Stories: How Genomics is Changing Race, Medicine, and Human History." Patterns of Prejudice 40:4/5 (November, November, 2006).