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Elizabeth Dolan serves as Professor of English and Health, Medicine, and Society at Lehigh University, concurrently holding the position of Dean of the College of Health. An interdisciplinary scholar specializing in British Romantic-era literature and Health Humanities, she is internationally recognized for expertise in suffering representation, medical history, children's literature, and women's writing from the late-eighteenth to early-nineteenth centuries.
Her educational background includes:
- PhD in English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1999)
Dolan's research traverses Health Humanities and Disability Studies with rigorous engagement in gender/sexuality studies and 18th-19th century literary history. She pioneered scholarship on Charlotte Smith's children's literature, examining intersections of slavery, cosmopolitanism, and maternal pedagogy through frameworks of medical discourse and spatial theory. Her work consistently bridges Romantic literature with contemporary health humanities concerns.
Recent publications reveal a pronounced focus on Caribbean emancipation narratives and Islamic textual traditions within Atlantic slavery contexts, particularly through Muhammad Kabā Saghanughu's Arabic writings. Simultaneously, she advances foundational studies on Charlotte Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft, analyzing melancholy, landscape, and moral philosophy through health humanities lenses.
Her scholarly recognition includes:
- Junior Faculty Teaching Award (2003)
- Frank Hook Assistant Professorship (2003-05)
- Hillman Faculty Award for Administrative Contributions (2014)
Dolan mentors doctoral students in Romanticism and Health Humanities while leading innovative interdisciplinary initiatives. Her 2014 Chawton House Library fellowship produced the internationally performed Song Cycles of Beachy Head (Carnegie Hall debut 2018), and she co-developed the ESRI-featured Charlotte Smith Story Map. She previously served as Lehigh's inaugural Deputy Provost for Graduate Education and founded the Health, Medicine, and Society Program.
Current collaborative work includes the LGBTQ2IA Health curriculum at Lehigh Valley Health Network and ongoing digital humanities projects exploring Romantic-era medical narratives through spatial and musical interpretations.
