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Laura Salisbury is Professor of Modern Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter, working within the English and Creative Writing department and the Centre for the Cultures and Environments of Health (a Wellcome Centre). Her research bridges literary studies, neuroscience, and healthcare systems with institutional leadership roles including HASS representative on University Senate from August 2024.
Education:
- BA in English and European Literature, Warwick University
- MA in the Theory and Practice of Modern Fiction, University of Exeter (1996)
- PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London (2003)
Salisbury's research critically examines modernist and contemporary fiction through lenses of medical humanities, neuroscientific conceptions of language, and temporal experiences in healthcare. Her work on Samuel Beckett (including monograph Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing) intersects with psychoanalysis, ethics, and affect theory, while current projects investigate waiting in healthcare systems and post-crisis temporal narratives in global health.
Her scientific recognition includes:
- RCUK Fellowship in Science, Technology and Culture (2007-2013)
Salisbury leads major research initiatives including the Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award 'Waiting Times' (2017-2023) as Principal Investigator and serves as Co-Investigator on the Wellcome Discovery Award 'After the End' examining temporal narratives in global health crises. She supervises PhD candidates in modernism (particularly Beckett), literature-neuroscience intersections, and medical humanities while developing curricula including Birkbeck's MA in Medical Humanities taught with NHS partners.
She directs research through the Centre for the Cultures and Environments of Health, serves on editorial boards for Journal of Beckett Studies and Medical Humanities, and was President of the Samuel Beckett Society (2020-2023).
