Rebecca M. Rosen

Education

• PhD, Princeton University
• MA, Princeton University
• MSt, University of Oxford
• BA, Barnard College, Columbia University

Highlighted Publications

• 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

• 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
• Co-Coordinator, American Studies Minor

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

• The Society of Early Americanists
• C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
• Modern Language Association
• The American Studies Association