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Professor Amelia DeFalco is a faculty member at the School of English, part of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures at the University of Leeds. Her expertise spans medical humanities, posthumanism, and contemporary literature, with a focus on ageing, care, vulnerability, and technology.
- PhD in English from the University of Toronto
- MA from McMaster University
- BA from the University of Toronto
Her research explores intersections of ethics and technology in caregiving, including human-robot relationships and biotechnology. She has collaborated on exhibitions like Can Robots Care? at the Thackray Museum of Medicine and contributes to journals such as Body and Society and Configurations. For her work on affect theory and posthuman care, she has co-edited special issues like Affective Technotouch (Senses and Society).
DeFalco is co-investigator on major grants, including the Wellcome Trust's LivingBodiesObjects and Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures, which examine care frameworks beyond human-centric models. She actively supervises postgraduate researchers and teaches modules on twentieth-century literature, medical humanities, and animal studies.
- Scientific awards:
- AHRC Leadership Fellowship (2022)
DeFalco's research bridges literature, philosophy, and technology, with a particular emphasis on reimagining care through posthuman and new materialist lenses. She is a member of the Medical Humanities Research Group and networks like the Northern Network of Medical Humanities Research and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology.
