Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth
Professor of English
Allegheny College
520 N. Main Street
Meadville, PA 16335
(814) 332-4324
email: jhellwar@allegheny.edu
English
Department Web Page: http://sites.allegheny.edu/english/
I am currently a Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Allegheny College where I teach courses in English, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and classes that fulfill requirements for the Middle East and North Africa Studies Minor (MENA) and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Minor (MEDRN). I graduated from University of California, Berkeley (Go Bears!) with a B.A. in an Individual Major (Renaissance Studies), from Stanford University (across the bay) with an M.A. in English, and from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a PhD in English. I joined the faculty at Allegheny College in 2000.
My most recent research interest is in the intersection of Literature and the History of Medicine and Sexuality in medieval and early modern Europe and the Middle East. I am currently working on a book project (provisionally) titled Sexual Healing in Social Practice and Literary Production: Medieval Arabic, Hebraic, and European Medicinal and Magical Remedies for Managing the Sexual Body in the Medieval Romance. I have an essay recently published in The Early History of Embodied Cognition 1740-1920, titled, "Pneuma--Sexuality--Sex Difference: From Arabic to European Philosophy and Medical Practice" (John A. McCarthy, Heather Sullivan, Stephanie Hilger, and Nicholas Saul, eds. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2016), and I have a co-authored essay on "Everything You Wanted to Know about Teaching a Cultural and Evolutionary History of Sexuality* (*but were afraid to ask)" in the Palgrave Handbook on Literature and Medicine (Stephanie Hilger, ed.), forthcoming 2017. I am also currently putting together an (experimental) research blog "Conflict and Creativity: Muslims, Jews, and Christians Managing the Medieval Sexual Body."
Some of the courses that I teach are a result of this research, including an English Junior Seminar on Magic and Medicine in Medieval Arabic and European Romance (Fall 2016) and an upper-level course on Medieval European and Middle Eastern Masculine and Feminine Bodies (Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2018). I also teach a course on "Bodies, Bloodletting, and Bile: History of Medicine" (History 280). In addition, I regularly teach Approaches to Reading Literature (English 110), Studies in Early British Literature (English 201), Women and Literature (English 211), Chaucer (English 311), and the Cultural History of the English Language (English 385). I also have taught Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS 100), FS 101 (First Year Seminar) on Modern Sexualities, and an Interdisciplinary course with Professor Ron Mumme, A Cultural and Evolutionary History of Sexuality (WGSS 306). I love working with students and trying to make the Medieval and Early Modern period come alive in the classroom.
My most recent research interest is in the intersection of Literature and the History of Medicine and Sexuality in medieval and early modern Europe and the Middle East. I am currently working on a book project (provisionally) titled Sexual Healing in Social Practice and Literary Production: Medieval Arabic, Hebraic, and European Medicinal and Magical Remedies for Managing the Sexual Body in the Medieval Romance. I have an essay recently published in The Early History of Embodied Cognition 1740-1920, titled, "Pneuma--Sexuality--Sex Difference: From Arabic to European Philosophy and Medical Practice" (John A. McCarthy, Heather Sullivan, Stephanie Hilger, and Nicholas Saul, eds. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2016), and I have a co-authored essay on "Everything You Wanted to Know about Teaching a Cultural and Evolutionary History of Sexuality* (*but were afraid to ask)" in the Palgrave Handbook on Literature and Medicine (Stephanie Hilger, ed.), forthcoming 2017. I am also currently putting together an (experimental) research blog "Conflict and Creativity: Muslims, Jews, and Christians Managing the Medieval Sexual Body."
Some of the courses that I teach are a result of this research, including an English Junior Seminar on Magic and Medicine in Medieval Arabic and European Romance (Fall 2016) and an upper-level course on Medieval European and Middle Eastern Masculine and Feminine Bodies (Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2018). I also teach a course on "Bodies, Bloodletting, and Bile: History of Medicine" (History 280). In addition, I regularly teach Approaches to Reading Literature (English 110), Studies in Early British Literature (English 201), Women and Literature (English 211), Chaucer (English 311), and the Cultural History of the English Language (English 385). I also have taught Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS 100), FS 101 (First Year Seminar) on Modern Sexualities, and an Interdisciplinary course with Professor Ron Mumme, A Cultural and Evolutionary History of Sexuality (WGSS 306). I love working with students and trying to make the Medieval and Early Modern period come alive in the classroom.
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