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Dr. Arden A. Hegele serves as a Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with cross-appointments at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia Medical Center's Medical Humanities and Ethics program, and the Core Curriculum. Her academic home is firmly situated within the Department of English and Comparative Literature where she teaches specialized courses at the intersection of literature and medicine.
Dr. Hegele's research spans 19th-Century Literature, Romanticism, Poetry and Poetics, Women's Literature, Medical Humanities, Literary Technology, and Biography. Her scholarship demonstrates how literary form intersects with medical discourse, particularly in the Romantic period, while also exploring contemporary issues in health humanities. She has established herself as a leading voice in the medical humanities field through both traditional literary scholarship and innovative interdisciplinary collaborations.
Her publication record reveals a clear trajectory from historical literary analysis toward contemporary health humanities applications. The foundational work Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form and Medical Reading (2022) established her expertise in historical medical discourse, while subsequent projects like Culture and Medicine (2022) and the edited volume on Conception and Its Discontents demonstrate increasing engagement with current medical humanities debates. Her current Byron biography project represents a return to literary biography while maintaining her medical humanities perspective.
- Mellon Fellowship at The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
- Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Visiting Fellowship in English Literature at the University of Oxford
Dr. Hegele has demonstrated significant leadership in academic programming through her organization of the Explorations in the Medical Humanities Series, co-direction of the Motherhood and Technology Working Group, and coordination of Columbia World Projects' 'Increasing Covid-19 Vaccine Confidence' initiative. Her service extends to editorial roles at BMJ: Medical Humanities and advisory positions with Creatives Care, reflecting her commitment to connecting academic work with practical community applications. Her recent convening of the Summer Institute for the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes Health and Medical Humanities Network at Columbia Global Centers | Paris demonstrates her growing international influence in the field.
