Jeremy Cornelius, PhD

He/they, Visiting Assistant Professor

About

Pronunciation: Jair-AH-mee Dr-ayk Corn-EEL-ee-oos

Dr. Jeremy Drake-Cornelius researches and teaches early modern literature. Looking across histories of medicine and embodiment, they are currently at work on a book project entitled Contagious Animality: Race, Metaphor, and Disease in Early Modern Literature, which examines how representations of contagion frame social differences through a human/animal binary. They have scholarly work published on Macbeth and contagion in The Journal of the Wooden O and creative work featured in Meniscus and Assaracus.


 

Research Interests

  • Pre-modern Critical Race Studies
  • Animal Studies
  • Affect Studies
  • Disability Studies
  • Medical Humanities
  • Queer and Feminist Theories