“These are not the stories that medicine necessarily wants us to tell, but that means it’s even doubly important that we try our best to track down these narratives.”
Lisa Mendelman
Lisa Mendelman is assistant professor of English and digital humanities at Menlo College. She works in the health humanities, with a focus on gender, race, and affect in 20th-century America. Her first book, Modern Sentimentalism: Affect, Irony, and Female Authorship in Interwar America (Oxford University Press, 2019) chronicles the emotional history of the modern woman and the corollary reinvention of sentimentalism in US interwar fiction. 