Perry Guevara

Dr. Perry Guevara is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Literature in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He specializes in cognitive literary studies, and his research brings together literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with neuroscience, ecology, and the history of medicine. His writing has appeared in Public Books, Shakespeare Studies, Configurations, Early Modern Culture, Renaissance Quarterly, and in several edited collections. 

Before coming to Georgia Tech, Dr. Guevara taught at Dominican University of California, where he co-founded the Health Humanities program and directed Performing Arts & Social Change, an undergraduate minor featuring a partnership with Marin Shakespeare Company’s prison-theater program. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society. He holds a Ph.D. from Emory University, M.A. from Georgetown University, and B.A. from the University of Alabama.