Matthew Reznicek

PhD, He/Him

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I would welcome any the opportunity to work with any student who wants to pursue the intersection of literature and Medical Humanities or History of Medicine. Students who are interested in studying ideas of health, illness, disability, and literature by writers such as Austen, Dickens, Scott, Gaskell, Radcliffe should feel free to reach out to me to discuss their project.

20152024

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Research interests

Matthew L. Reznicek utilizes Medical Humanities and History of Medicine to better understand eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Irish Literature. He is currently completing a monograph on the politics of health in the Romantic genre of the National Tale, including works by Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), and Germaine deStaël. Previously, he has published on biopolitics and death in the National Tale; urban infrastructure and public health in nineteenth-century novels; the corpse and abjection in Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Maria Edgeworth; and on teaching healthcare inequities through Austen's Emma. 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 1 - No Poverty
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Money and the European Metropolis, Queen's University Belfast

Sep 6 2010Jul 10 2014

Award Date: Nov 14 2013

External Positions

President, American Conference for Irish Studies

Jun 9 2023Jun 11 2025

Vice President, American Conference for Irish Studies

Jun 11 2021Jun 9 2023

Research Interest Keywords

  • Medical Humanities
  • Romanticism
  • Nineteenth-Century Literature
  • History of Medicine
  • Biopolitics
  • Social Determinants of Health

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