UMass Boston

Victorian literature, medical humanities, global health

PhD, Rice University

• Penner, Louise and Tabitha Sparks, eds., and Introduction, Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture Pickering and Chatto 2015. Reprinted University of Pittsburg, 2016
• Penner, Louise. Victorian Medicine and Social Reform: Florence Nightingale among the Novelists. Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters Series. New York: Palgrave, 2010

Victorian Literature and Culture; Studies in American Fiction; Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies; Women and Things: Gendered Material Practices, 1750-1950; Foundations of Global Health Practice; Making Sense of Health, Illness, and Disease; Persuasions: The Journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America.