Edith Snook

Edith Snook is a Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. Her research focuses on early modern English literature, with specialization in women's writing, medical knowledge, and cultural politics. She holds SSHRC-funded projects including 'Early Modern Maritime Recipes' (collaborating with Dalhousie University) and a monograph on women's medical practice in seventeenth-century England. Her work examines intersections of medicine, gender, and identity through manuscripts and printed texts.

• Education: PhD in English

Her research interests include feminist literary history, women's contributions to early modern medical knowledge, and the cultural significance of beauty practices. Recent projects explore how medical labor influenced literary forms like autobiography, poetry, and letters.

Awards include the 2011 Choice Outstanding Academic Title for her book on women's beauty and power dynamics in early modern England. She supervises graduate theses on early modern non-dramatic literature and women's writing, and is a member of the Graduate Academic Unit.