Alan Bewell, University of Toronto

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University

Friday, November 14, 2008, 5:00 pm EST

Time: 10:15 a.m.

Place: 211 Dickinson Hall, Princeton University

Commentator: William Howarth, Princeton University


Copies of the paper are available by contacting Jennifer Houle at jhoule@princeton.edu one week before the date of the seminar.


Alan Bewell, Professor of English at the University of Toronto, is interested in the relationship between literature, medicine, and science, particularly within the context of British colonialism. His ongoing work involves literary representation of disease, and he is currently writing a book on Romanticism and natural history.