James Fitz Gerald
Teaching Interests
American Literature, 1850-1950; Medical / Health Humanities; Environmental Humanities; Critical Disability Studies; Cultural Studies
Research Interests
Current research concentrates on health ecology in U.S. fiction, examining representations of disease and the environment amid the rise of literary realism after the Civil War.
Bio
James Fitz Gerald earned his Ph.D. in English, General Literature, and Rhetoric from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He specializes in 19th- and 20th-century American literature, with an emphasis on narratives about health inequality and the history of medicine. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Literature and Medicine, American Literary Realism, Modern Fiction Studies, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, and Writing and Pedagogy, among other venues.
Professional Memberships
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 2021-03-01 - PresentAmerican Comparative Literature Association 2017-01-01 - PresentModern Language Association 2016-01-01 - PresentScholarly Contributions and Creative Productions
Journal Articles
Fitz Gerald, J. (2024). "A World Made Flesh: Ecologies of Health in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills". American Literary Realism, (57) 1 46-60. (Link) (Forthcoming)Fitz Gerald, J. (2021). "'These Jests of God': Arrowsmith and Tropical Medicine's Racial Ecology". Literature and Medicine, (39) 3:00 249-272. (Link)Fitz Gerald, J. (2021). "Loving Mean: Racialized Medicine and the Rise of Postwar Eugenics in Toni Morrison's Home". Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, (46) 3:00 140-158. (Link)Fitz Gerald, J. (2019). “‘Hounded by the Terrible Threat’: Illness at the Edges of Citizenship in Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart”. Modern Fiction Studies, (65) 4:00 599-617. (Link)Fitz Gerald, J., Ryan, R. (2018). “Form at its Limits: Edward Said, Marxism, and the Valences of Critique”. Open Library of Humanities, (4) 2:00 21-Jan. (Link)Digital and Electronic Media, Social Media, Blogs, Podcasts
2023. "Flipping the Script" Fitz Gerald, J. 2021. "Newsweek" Other Scholarly Work
Fitz Gerald, J. (2023). “The AI Will See You Now.”. Flipping the Script (Link).Fitz Gerald, J. (2021). Lockdown Effectiveness Starts with Relief for Everyday Americans. Newsweek .Presentations
Fitz Gerald, J. (2025). “Culturing Contagion: Germ Theory in Gothic Fiction.” Presented at the The Jeanne & Dan Valente Center for Arts & Sciences Seminar on Technology and Consciousness Bentley University Fitz Gerald, J. (2025). “"Medicine and the Mycelial Image in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'." ” Presented at the American Literature AssociationFitz Gerald, J. (2023). “"A World Made Flesh: Ecologies of Health in Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills."” Presented at the American Literature Association Boston, MA Fitz Gerald, J. (2022). “"Ecologies of Health in American Literature."” Presented at the University of Pennsylvania Institute on Culture and Society Philadelphia, PA Fitz Gerald, J. (2021). “‚ÄúStudent Well-Being: Lessons from the Crisis.‚Äù” Presented at the Bentley University Bentley Learning and Teaching Council Colloquium Remote Fitz Gerald, J. (2021). “‚ÄúWhy Literature?: Narrative Knowledge and the Pandemic Present.‚Äù” Presented at the Mount Saint Mary College Sigma Tau Delta Induction Ceremony Newburgh, NY Fitz Gerald, J. (2021). “Arrowsmith and the Racial Ecology of Imperial Medicine” Presented at the Modern Language AssociationReviews
Fitz Gerald, J. (2021). Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature. , (67) 3: 593-595. (Link)Fitz Gerald, J. (2017). Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species. , (25) 1: 590-592. (Link)Service
Service: Department
Committee Member for Research Committee 2024-09-01 - PresentCommittee Member for Critical Reading and Writing Committee 2022-05-01 - PresentService: University
for Climate Creativity Lab - PresentCommittee Member for Center for Health and Business 2020-08-01 - Present
