Lindsey Grubbs

Lindsey Grubbs, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University. She previously served as a Hecht-Levi Fellow and holds a PhD in English from Emory University. Her interdisciplinary work bridges literary studies and bioethics, focusing on narrative analysis in medical contexts, particularly around psychiatric and neurological conditions. She examines how diagnostic uncertainty and medically unexplained symptoms intersect with social stigma and cultural narratives.

• Education: PhD in English (Emory University)
• Fellowships: Hecht-Levi Fellow (2020)
• Key Projects: Edited Under That Calamity, a reissue of John Perceval’s 19th-century asylum memoir.

Her research emphasizes the critical health humanities, integrating disability studies, gender studies, and ethnic studies to address gaps in medical knowledge. Funding sources include the Library Company of Philadelphia and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in journals like Journal of Medical Humanities and American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience.

Grubbs advocates for literary analysis as a tool to clarify conceptual and experiential challenges in medicine, particularly for marginalized patient groups. She collaborates with institutions like Lanternfish Press to recover overlooked narratives in medical history.