Narin Hassan

Associate Professor and Associate Chair

Member Of:
  • School of Literature, Media, and Communication
  • ADVANCE IAC
Office Location: Skiles 338
Office Hours: T/Th 11am-12pm and by appt.
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Overview

Narin Hassan is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC). She received her PhD in English from the University of Rochester. Before Georgia Tech, she taught at James Madison University for two years. Her research and teaching interests include Victorian literature and culture, postcolonial and gender studies, medical humanities, and critical yoga studies. Her book, Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge and Colonial Mobility (Ashgate, 2011) traces the figure of the woman doctor in the context of Victorian colonial and scientific expansion. She has published in journals including Women's Studies Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Mosaic, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Race and Yoga and has chapters in a number of book collections. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the gendered cultures and histories of yoga, and self-care. She has recently co-edited (with Eileen Cleere and George Robb) a special issue of Nineteenth Century Contexts entitled "Unprecedented Disruptions: Nineteenth-Century Scholars Reflect on 2020" (December 2021) and (with Jessica Howell) a special issue of the journal Medical Humanities on "Global Health Humanitiies" (June 2022).  She has also co-edited (with Nicole Lobdell) a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts on the topic of "Nineteenth-Century Mobilities." She currently serves as the President of INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies). 

Interests

Research Fields:
  • Literary and Cultural Studies
Geographic
Focuses:
  • Asia (South)
  • Europe
  • Middle East
Issues:
  • Environment
  • Gender
  • Health
  • Race/Ethnicity
  • Feminism
  • Intercultural Issues
  • Literary Theory
  • Literature
  • Migration
  • Post-Colonialism

Courses

  • ENGL-1102: English Composition II
  • HTS-3803: Special Topics
  • LCC-2100: Intro-Sci,Tech & Culture
  • LCC-2813: Special Topics in STAC
  • LCC-3112: Evolution&Industrial Age
  • LCC-3202: Studies in Fiction
  • LCC-3212: Women, Lit & Culture
  • LCC-3219: Literature and Medicine
  • LCC-3316: Postcolonialism
  • LCC-3318: Biomedicine & Culture
  • LCC-3514: Victorian Lit & Culture
  • LCC-3823: Special Topics Lit/Cult
  • LCC-3833: Special Topics in STAC
  • LCC-4100: Seminar in STAC
  • LCC-4102: Senior Thesis
  • LMC-2000: Intro-Lit, Media, & Comm
  • LMC-2200: Intro to Gender Studies
  • LMC-3202: Studies in Fiction
  • LMC-3212: Women, Lit & Culture
  • LMC-3219: Literature & Medicine
  • LMC-3226: Major Authors
  • LMC-3304: Science, Technology, and Gender
  • LMC-3316: Postcolonialism
  • LMC-3318: Biomedicine & Culture
  • LMC-3514: Victorian Lit & Culture
  • LMC-4000: Senior Seminar in Literature, Media, and Communication
  • LMC-4102: Senior Thesis
  • LMC-4200: Seminar Lit/Cult Theory
  • LMC-6320: Globalization and New Me

Recent Publications

Additional Information

Joined Faculty In 2003

Selected
Grants:
  • Provost Teaching and Learning Fellowship Award, Georgia Tech, 2018-2020
  • Hesburgh Teaching Fellow, Georgia Tech, 2013
  • Ivan Allen College Small Research Grant Awards, Georgia Tech, 2011, 2017, 2019
  • Nominated for W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award, Georgia Tech, 2011
  • Foundation for Women in Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard University, 2009
  • Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, Summer 2007
  • WST (Women, Science, and Technology) faculty/student partnership grant, Georgia Tech, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2017
Current and
Recent
Projects:

Books

“Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge and Colonial Mobility” (July 2011, Ashgate Publishing).

Consuming Culture: Narratives of Consumption in the Long Nineteenth Century (co-edited with Tamara Silvia Wagner), Lexington Books, March 2007. 

Book project in progress: “Vital Energies: Gendered Conceptions of Mind, Body, and Spirit.”

Edited Journal Collections

“Nineteenth-Century Mobilities,” Special Issue of Nineteenth Century Contexts, Taylor and Francis, December 2015 (co-edited with Nicole Lobdell).

“Global Health Humanities,” Special Issue of Medical Humanities (co-edited with Jessica Howell). Forthcoming June 2022.

Selected Articles

“Bedside Reading: On Dracula by Bram Stoker.” My Victorian Novel (ed. Annette Federico). University of Missouri Press, June 2020.

“Women Writers and Colonial Medicine in India.” Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth/Nineteenth Century (eds. Clark Lawlor and Andrew Mangham). Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021. 

“Tending Spaces: Yoga as an Integrative and Collaborative Practice for Communities.” Book chapter for “Practicing Yoga as Resistance: Voices of Color in Search of Freedom” (edited by Cara Hagan). Forthcoming, Routledge 2021.

“Feeding Empire: Wet Nursing and Colonial Domesticity in India.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts (Special issue edited by Jill Ehnenn). December 2016. 

“Not just ‘amusement’ for ladies: Marianne North’s Pleasures and Pursuits of Botany.” Strange Science (eds. Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett); University of Michigan Press, December 2016). 

“The Productive Pillbox: Women in the Colonial Medical Market.” Economic Women. Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture. (eds. Lana Dalley and Jill Rappoport). Ohio State University Press, December 2013. 

“Botanical Brews: Tea Drinking and the Exotic in Lady Audley’s Secret and Behind a Mask.” Transatlantic Sensations (eds. Jennifer Phegley and John Barton), Ashgate, October 2013.

“Milk Markets; Technology, The Lactating Body and New Forms of Consumption.” WSQ. Women’s Studies Quarterly, Special Issue: Market, 38: 3&4 (Fall/Winter 2010): 209-228.

 “Female Prescriptions: On Lucie Duff-Gordon and Isabel Burton Doctoring Empire.” Nineteenth Century Gender Studies Issue 5.3 Fall 2009. 

“Jane Eyre’s Doubles: Colonial Progress and the Tradition of New Woman Writing in India.”  Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years, (ed. Annette Federico), University of Missouri Press, 2009 (pages 111-126).

Currently Under Review

“Travelers, Translators, and Spiritual Mothers: Yoga, White Womanhood, and Colonial Histories.” Article under review for Race and Yoga: Special Issue on South Asian Voices.

Professional
Associations:
  • Vice President, INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies) Association
  • North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)