Mary Taylor Mann

Mary Taylor Mann’s research focuses on the intersecting histories of poetry and medicine in the British Empire in the nineteenth-century. In her book project, Vascular Aesthetics, Mann argues that Romantic- and Victorian-era poets adapted emerging and entrenched medical ideas about blood to shape how bodies were presented in their poetry. She is also writing about menstruation myths in Victorian women’s poetry. Mann, whose research has been published in European Romantic Review, earned her Ph.D. in English from Emory University in 2023. She also holds an M.A. in bioethics from Wake Forest University.