Kerri Slatus is an Instructor with the Downtown ASU campus, in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, teaching English composition courses. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Arizona State in 2016 at the Tempe campus. Her research areas include American Literature, the history of medicine and psychology, gender studies, and medical humanities. Her dissertation explored how American women writers at the turn of the century narrated women's medical experiences. Her research currently centers on bioethics and experiences of medicine in the twentieth century intersecting with gender, race, and culture. She has published articles on Edith Wharton and euthanasia, Zelda Fitzgerald and mental illness and narratives of corporeality and passing related to Nella Larsen's Passing.
She has taught composition and literature at various institutions since 2010. Earning her Master's degree from CUNY Graduate Center in 2009 in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Women's Studies, she has taught survey courses in World Literature, American Literature, African-American Literature and courses on literature and medicine and literature and addiction.
Most recently she was a faculty member at Keiser University in West Palm Beach, following a position as Lecturer at Towson University in Towson, Maryland.
Education
Ph.D., 2016, English Literature, Arizona State University
M.A., 2009, Liberal Studies, City University of New York, Graduate Center
B.A., 2005, English, Psychology, Minor: Journalism, University of Rochester
Research Interests
American literature,gender studies, medical humanities, bioethics, history of medicine and psychology
