Rebecca M. Rosen

Education

• PhD, Princeton University

• MA, Princeton University

• MSt, University of Oxford

• BA, Barnard College, Columbia University

Highlighted Publications

• “Severing the Academic Mind,” Synapsis: An Online Health Humanities Journal, 7 April 2025.

• “Innocent Specimens: Depicting Enslaved Childhood through the Lusus Naturae," in Allison Giffen and Lucia Hodgson, eds., The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19th Century (Routledge, 28 February 2025).

• “‘Enquire it Away’: Conjuring the Matron’s Jury in ‘The Welkin,’” Synapsis: An Online Health Humanities Journal, 16 July 2024.

• “Framing Mark: Reading the Africanist Presence in Early American Broadsides,” Forum on Milestones in Black Studies, Early American Literature, 59.2, Spring 2024.

• Invited Review, “What Woman That Was: Poems for Mary Dyer,” by Anne Myles (Final Thursday Press, 2022), Early American Literature, 59.1, Winter 2024.

• Review: “Narrative Medicine in Education, Practice, and Interventions” Anders Juhl Rasmussen, Anne-Marie Mai, and Helle Ploug Hansen, Eds. (Anthem Press: 2023), Synapsis: An Online Health Humanities Journal, 29 May 2023.

• “Toppling the Ladder: The Patriarch’s Foundation and Fantasies of Reproductive Resurrection,” Synapsis: An Online Health Humanities Journal, 17 March 2022.

• “‘The Voice of the innocent Blood cries aloud from the Ground to Heaven’: Speaking and Discovering Infanticide in the Early American Northeast,” Early American Literature, 57.1, 2022.

• “Synthetic Life: Anatomy, Paternity, and Personhood in Star Trek: Picard,” Synapsis: An Online Health Humanities Journal, 14 February 2021. 

• “Copying Hannah Griffitts: Poetic Circulation and the Quaker Community of Scribes,” Michele Lise Tarter and Catie Gill, eds., New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women: 1650-1800 (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Courses Taught

• ENG 105: Critical Reading, Writing and Inquiry (BIPOC Contemporary American Women Writers)

• ENG 311: American Literature to 1865

• ENG 320: Survey of African American Literature

Areas of Specialization

• Multiethnic Early American Literature

• Native American Literature

• African American Literature

• Literature and Medicine/Medical Humanities

Awards and Distinctions

• Research Fellowship, Kentucky Historical Society, Awarded Fall 2024

• Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2022, Awarded Fall 2023

• AAS-NEH Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, February-May 2023 

• Junior Scholar of the Month, Society of Early Americanists, January 2018

• Helfand Medicine, Science and Society Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia, August 2017

• McNeil Center for Early American Studies Consortium Dissertation Fellowship, 2016-2017

Leadership and Service

• Coordinator, Medical and Health Humanities Minor and Certificate

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

• The Society of Early Americanists

• C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

• Modern Language Association