Mary Taylor Mann

Mary Taylor Mann’s research focuses on the intersecting histories of poetry and medicine in the British Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. 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. An article based on her research on cerebral circulation in the poetry of William Wordsworth recently appeared in European Romantic Review, and she is currently writing about menstruation myths in Victorian women’s poetry. In the classroom, she integrates methods from bioethics and the health humanities to explore historical and contemporary representations of health, medicine, and embodiment. She earned her Ph.D. in English from Emory University in 2023, and she also holds an M.A. in bioethics from Wake Forest University.