Neil Vickers

Neil Vickers is Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities at King's College London, with joint appointments in the Department of English and Centre for the Humanities and Health. He co-directs the Centre for the Humanities and Health, bridging literary studies with medical education and clinical practice.

Education:

• BA (Trinity College Dublin)
• MPhil (University of Oxford)
• DPhil (University of Oxford)

Vickers' research examines intersections between literature and medicine, specializing in illness narratives, British psychoanalytic traditions, and Romantic literature. His current projects analyze how major illness transforms social identity and investigate the historical development of medical humanities. His work integrates psychoanalytic theory, disability studies, and microsociology to understand care dynamics in contemporary societies.

Publications demonstrate sustained engagement with illness representation across literary genres, combining theoretical frameworks from Winnicott, Bion and contemporary medical anthropology. Recent work explores narrative constructions of embodiment in autobiographical writing.

Honors:

• BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship (2024)

He teaches undergraduate modules on Literature and Psychoanalysis and graduate courses in Health Humanities. As PhD supervisor, he mentors students working on literature and medicine, medical humanities history, and British psychoanalysis.