OVERVIEW​: In recent years, literary critics and humanists have investigated how we “narrate” and convey stories of epidemics, their causes, and effects. This session will explore how these accounts are structured and organized, and how they shape deeper humanistic knowledge about diseases and their spread.
GUEST FACULTY​:
● Eram Alam​ - Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine, Department of the History of
Science
● Jill Lepore​ - ​David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History; and Affiliate
Professor of Law, Harvard University
● Karen Thornber​ - Acting Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations