Narin Hassan
Associate Professor
Member Of:
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
- ADVANCE IAC
Office Location: Skiles 363
Office Hours: T/Th 1-2pm and by appt.
Email Address: narin.hassan@lmc.gatech.edu
Overview
Narin Hassan is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC). She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester. Her research and teaching interests include Victorian literature and culture, gender studies, postcolonial/decolonial studies, health humanities, and critical yoga studies. Her book, Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge and Colonial Mobility (Routledge) 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 in a number of book collections. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the gendered cultures of yoga within a historical context. She has 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 is currently co-editing a special issue (with Farha Ternikar) of Race and Yoga on "Yoga in Global Muslim Contexts: Cultural Representations and Spiritual Practices." She has served as Vice President and then President of INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies) from 2017-2024 and continues on the board in an ex-officio Past President role.
Interests
Research Fields:
- Literary and Cultural Studies
Geographic
Focuses:
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
Publications
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- Travelers, Translators, and Spiritual Mothers: Yoga, Gender, and Colonial Histories
In: Race and Yoga Special Issue: South Asian Voices on Yoga [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2020
Journal - Editors
- Global Health Humanities
In: Medical Humanities [Peer Reviewed]
Date: June 2022
- Unprecedented Disruptions: Nineteenth-Century Scholars Reflect on 2020
In: Nineteenth Century Contexts [Peer Reviewed]
Date: January 2022
Chapters
- “Tending Communities: Yoga as an Integrative, Collaborative, and Transformative Practice.”
In: Practicing Yoga as Resistance: Voices of Color in Search of Freedom [Peer Reviewed]
Date: April 2021
- Flexible Bodies/Astral Minds: Gendered Conceptions of Colonial Medicine
In: Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century [Peer Reviewed]
Date: April 2021
All Publications
Books
- Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility
In: [Peer Reviewed]
Date: July 2011
Journal Articles
- Travelers, Translators, and Spiritual Mothers: Yoga, Gender, and Colonial Histories
In: Race and Yoga Special Issue: South Asian Voices on Yoga [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2020
- Feeding Empire: Wet Nursing and Colonial Domesticity in India
In: Nineteenth Century Contexts [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2016
- “Milk Markets; Technology, The Lactating Body and New Forms of Consumption.”
In: Women's Studies Quarterly [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2010
- “Female Prescriptions: On Lucie Duff-Gordon and Isabel Burton Doctoring Empire.”
In: Nineteenth Century Gender Studies [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2009
- Reading the Garden in M.E. Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife
In: Mosaic [Peer Reviewed]
Date: May 2005
Journal - Editors
- Global Health Humanities
In: Medical Humanities [Peer Reviewed]
Date: June 2022
- Unprecedented Disruptions: Nineteenth-Century Scholars Reflect on 2020
In: Nineteenth Century Contexts [Peer Reviewed]
Date: January 2022
- Nineteenth-Century Mobilities
In: Nineteenth Century Contexts [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2015
Chapters
- Flexible Bodies/Astral Minds: Gendered Conceptions of Colonial Medicine
In: Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century [Peer Reviewed]
Date: April 2021
- “Tending Communities: Yoga as an Integrative, Collaborative, and Transformative Practice.”
In: Practicing Yoga as Resistance: Voices of Color in Search of Freedom [Peer Reviewed]
Date: April 2021
- Bedtime Reading: Bram Stoker's Dracula
In: My Victorian Novel: Critical Essays in the Personal Voice [Peer Reviewed]
Date: May 2020
- “Not just ‘amusement’ for ladies: Marianne North’s Pleasures and Pursuits of Botany.”
In: Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2016
- Colonialism and Gender
In: The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of Gender and Sexuality [Peer Reviewed]
Date: May 2016
- India in Literature
In: The Blackwell Anthology of Victorian Literature [Peer Reviewed]
Date: July 2015
- “Botanical Brews: Tea Drinking and the Exotic in Lady Audley’s Secret and Behind a Mask.”
In: Transatlantic Sensations [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2013
- “The Productive Pillbox: Women in the Colonial Medical Market.”
In: Economic Women. Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture. [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2013
- Empire, Industry, and the Novel
In: Critical Insights: Technology and Humanity
Date: May 2012
- “Jane Eyre’s Doubles: Colonial Progress and the Tradition of New Woman Writing in India.”
In: Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2009
- The Nineteenth-Century
In: Women, Science and Myth: Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present
Date: June 2007
Other Publications
- Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
Date: April 2007