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Lyn Bennett serves as Professor in the Department of English within Dalhousie University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, specializing in the intersections of rhetoric, gender, and health in early modern literature. Her research bridges literary studies with medical humanities through textual analysis of 17th-century women writers.
Her educational background includes BA and MA degrees from Dalhousie University, a second MA from Carleton University, and PhD from Dalhousie. Research interests center on rhetorical strategies in early modern women's writing, with particular focus on medical discourse, religious expression, and gender performance in texts from 1600-1700.
Publication trends reveal sustained exploration of rhetoric's role in women's engagement with medicine and religion, evolving from foundational work on Pembroke/Wroth/Lanyer (2004) to contemporary analyses of health narratives (2015-2019). Recent scholarship demonstrates increasing interdisciplinary collaboration, notably the SSHRC-funded database project on maritime recipes.
Scientific recognition includes:
- SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2016) as Co-Investigator
- SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2011)
- Multiple SSHRC fellowships (1999-2004)
- Prestigious Killam and Ritchie scholarships
- Carleton University Senate Medal
Current grant activity centers on the 'Early Modern Maritime Recipes' database developed with UNB's Dr. Edith Snook, examining historical medical remedies through textual scholarship. Though no formal advisees are listed, her mentorship extends through collaborative research projects and editorial contributions to journals like Journal of Medical Humanities.
She maintains active research leadership through the 'Early Modern Maritime Recipes' project, which digitally reconstructs historical medical knowledge while advancing methodologies for interdisciplinary textual analysis.
