Kristie Schlauraff (she/her/hers)

Lecturer

Columbia University

Description of Work:

My research focuses primarily on nineteenth-century literature and medicine, and many of my projects draw together the history of science and sound studies to think about the nature of embodiment and sensory experience. Currently, I am working on a book project titled “Discordant Bodies: Victorian Science and Gothic Soundscapes,” which argues that gothic authors turned to the audible world to undermine the emergent scientific community’s restrictive definitions of personhood. In addition to my work on Victorian literature, I am also interested in contemporary questions of health equity, disability rights, and medical education. I have had the opportunity to think more acutely about these particular concerns through my work as the co-director of the Medical Humanities Cohort in Columbia’s first-year writing program.

Contact: kas2321@columbia.edu