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Kelly McGuire is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Trent University, affiliated with Catharine Parr Traill College. Her office is located in Wallis Hall 120.
Dr. McGuire earned her B.A. from Queen's University, and both her M.A. and Ph.D. from Western University. Her academic journey has led her to specialize in 18th-century literature and related interdisciplinary fields.
Dr. McGuire's research focuses on the intersections of literature, medicine, and cultural history in the 18th century. Her work explores how disease, suicide, and national identity were constructed and represented in literary texts of the period. She investigates plague writing and public health discourse, biothrillers and biopunk literature, disease and national character formation, women's writing, and sermon literature from historical and contemporary perspectives.
Her current research includes an interdisciplinary study of suicide, gender, and national identity in the 18th-century novel; an edition on the cultural history of suicide in the 18th century; a book project on plague writing and public health discourse; and articles on the interconnections between physiology and philosophy in early Romantic thought.
Dr. McGuire has published extensively on 18th-century literature, with particular attention to themes of suicide, mourning practices, material culture, and representations of disease. Her work appears in prominent journals such as Literature and Medicine, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Canadian Poetry.
As a supervisor, Dr. McGuire welcomes students interested in 18th-century literature, medical humanities, cultural history, and interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies. She encourages students to develop research projects that bridge historical and contemporary concerns, particularly in the areas of disease representation, national identity formation, and gender studies.
Dr. McGuire's research demonstrates a consistent commitment to exploring how literary texts engage with medical, philosophical, and cultural discourses of their time, revealing enduring patterns in how societies understand health, illness, and identity.
