Annika Mann

Annika Mann is a scholar of eighteenth-century and Romantic-era British literature and culture, with special interests in the history of medicine, the health humanities, and disability studies. Her book Reading Contagion: The Hazards of Reading in the Age of Print (University of Virginia Press, 2018) explores how reading was marked as a fundamentally contagious, collectivizing activity in medical texts and literary works published during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Her co-edited collection, Transforming Contagion (Rutgers University Press, 2018), with ASU colleagues Breanne Fahs, Eric Swank, and Sarah Stage, examines contagion from both social sciences and humanities perspectives, by excavating infectious practices rooted in social movements, film, literature, psychological exchanges, the classroom and more. Dr. Mann's current book project Stillness: Chronic Illness and Romantic Narrative Art explores how women during the Romantic period narrate chronic pain and immobility. Articles and chapters by Dr. Mann have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, as well as the volumes Systems of Life (eds. Montag and Barney), Keywords for the Health Humanities (eds. Altschuler, Metzl, and Wald), and Care and Disability (eds. Gabbard and Schaffer).