Emily B. Stanback
Associate Professor · British Romanticism
University of Southern MississippiAbout
Emily B. Stanback is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi specializing in British Romantic literature, disability studies, health humanities, and histories of medicine and science.
Her educational background:
- PhD, CUNY Graduate School and University Center (2013)
- MA, University of Chicago (2003)
Her research centers on disability's role in Romantic-era thought and aesthetics, demonstrated through interdisciplinary analysis of medical texts, poetry, and essays. Current projects investigate disability, time, and form in Romantic literature alongside disability and race in the long eighteenth century, bridging literary scholarship with medical history and critical theory. She co-directs The Gravestone Project, a digital humanities initiative exploring memorialization and embodiment.
Publications from 2014-2024 reveal evolving focus from foundational literary disability studies toward intersectional analyses of race and disability within historical contexts. Her work consistently examines how non-normative embodiment shapes aesthetic frameworks across genres and periods.
Dr. Stanback actively contributes to academic discourse through her co-direction of The Gravestone Project and ongoing research. No scientific awards were documented in the provided materials.
