Matthew Reznicek

Emailreznicekumnedu

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I would welcome any PhD proposal at the intersection of literature and Medical Humanities or History of Medicine. Students who are interested in studying ideas of health, illness, disability, and the intersection with gender and class in the works Austen, Dickens, Scott, Gaskell, Radcliffe should feel free to reach out via email.

I have served on graduate committees at University of Illinois-Chicago and Purdue University for students whose dissertations examined the figure of the addict in Nineteenth-Century British Literature as well as the construction of race in Eighteenth-Century British Ossianic Literature.

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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 Mansfield Park.

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):

Education/Academic qualification

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

Sep 6 2010 → Jul 10 2014

Award Date: Nov 14 2013

External Positions

President, American Conference for Irish Studies

Jun 9 2023 → Jun 11 2025

Vice President, American Conference for Irish Studies

Jun 11 2021 → Jun 9 2023

Research Interest Keywords

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

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8 Chapter
7 Article
1 Book
1 Review article

Haunting the ‘Proper Body’: Disability, Contagion, and Citizenship in Irish and Scottish Novels of the Union
Reznicek, M., May 2023, In: Irish University Review. 53, 1, p. 48 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
He Does Not Suffer Now: Death and Citizenship in the National Tale
Reznicek, M., Nov 2022, Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century. Cogan, L. & O'Connell, M. (eds.). Palgrave, Macmillan, p. 119 137 p. (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
1 Scopus citations
Fevered Anxieties: Public Health, Urban Infrastructure, and Infectious Classes in Austen, Edgeworth, and Scott
Reznicek, M., 2022, Locating Classed Subjectivities: Intersections of Space and Working-Class Life in Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century British Writing. Lee, S. (ed.). Routledge.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Abject Capitalism as the Sight of Dead Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Novels
Reznicek, M., 2021, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class. McMillan, G. (ed.). Routledge., p. 293-306
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
It Was Sickness and Poverty Together: Teaching Inequality and Health Humanities in Austen’s Emma
Reznicek, M., 2023, Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now: Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement. Parker, K. & Wallace, M. (eds.). Bucknell University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

3 Invited presentation
1 Membership of network

Distorted in a Fever: Disease, Disorder, and Social Management in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui
Matthew Reznicek (Speaker)
May 2 2023
Activity: Talk types › Invited presentation
American Conference for Irish Studies (External organization)
Matthew Reznicek (Chair)
2023 → 2025
Activity: Membership types › Membership of network
Citizenship and Disability in the National Tale
Matthew Reznicek (Speaker)
Feb 9 2022
Activity: Talk types › Invited presentation
“Healing the Union: Health, Illness, and Disability in the National Tale.”
Matthew Reznicek (Speaker)
Feb 1 2022
Activity: Talk types › Invited presentation

Matthew Reznicek

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Haunting the ‘Proper Body’: Disability, Contagion, and Citizenship in Irish and Scottish Novels of the Union

He Does Not Suffer Now: Death and Citizenship in the National Tale

Fevered Anxieties: Public Health, Urban Infrastructure, and Infectious Classes in Austen, Edgeworth, and Scott

Abject Capitalism as the Sight of Dead Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Novels

It Was Sickness and Poverty Together: Teaching Inequality and Health Humanities in Austen’s Emma

Distorted in a Fever: Disease, Disorder, and Social Management in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui

American Conference for Irish Studies (External organization)

Citizenship and Disability in the National Tale

“Healing the Union: Health, Illness, and Disability in the National Tale.”

Matthew Reznicek

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Research interests

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

Education/Academic qualification

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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

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