Narin Hassan

Associate Professor

Member Of:
  • School of Literature, Media, and Communication
  • ADVANCE IAC
Office Location: Skiles 363
Office Hours: T/Th 1-2pm and by appt.

Overview

Narin Hassan is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC). She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester. Her research and teaching interests include Victorian literature and culture, gender studies, postcolonial/decolonial studies, health humanities, and critical yoga studies. Her book, Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge and Colonial Mobility (Routledge) traces the figure of the woman doctor in the context of Victorian colonial and scientific expansion. She has published in journals including Women's Studies Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Mosaic, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Race and Yoga, and in a number of book collections. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the gendered cultures of yoga within a historical context. She has co-edited (with Eileen Cleere and George Robb) a special issue of Nineteenth Century Contexts entitled "Unprecedented Disruptions: Nineteenth-Century Scholars Reflect on 2020" (December 2021) and (with Jessica Howell) a special issue of the journal Medical Humanities on "Global Health Humanitiies" (June 2022).  She has also co-edited (with Nicole Lobdell) a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts on the topic of "Nineteenth-Century Mobilities." She is currently co-editing a special issue (with Farha Ternikar) of Race and Yoga on "Yoga in Global Muslim Contexts: Cultural Representations and Spiritual Practices." She has served as Vice President and then President of INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies) from 2017-2024 and continues on the board in an ex-officio Past President role.