Ross-Blakley Hall 212 PO Box 871401
TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
Mail code: 1401
Campus: Tempe
Long Bio
Cora Fox is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the School of Medicine and Medical Engineering at Arizona State University. She has led an initiative to develop research capacity in the health humanities at ASU since 2013, and she co-directs the Health Humanities Initiative in the Humanities Institute. She is the author of Ovid and the Politics of Emotion in Elizabethan England (Palgrave, 2009) and co-edited, with Bradley Irish and Cassie Miura, Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Manchester UP, 2021) and with Barbara Weiden Boyd, the MLA Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition (2010). Her current work focuses on the cultural histories and politics of positive emotions and well-being, as well as the role of narrative in shaping notions of care and community, particularly their exclusions. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled Fictions of Health and Happiness in Early Modern England.
