Matthew Reznicek

Matthew Reznicek is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, specializing in Medical Humanities and History of Medicine within the Department of Surgery. His research bridges eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Irish literature with critical analyses of health, illness, and disability.

• Department: Surgery
• External Role: President, American Conference for Irish Studies (2023–2025)

His work focuses on the intersection of biopolitics, social determinants of health, and literary representations of disease in authors like Austen, Dickens, Scott, and Gaskell. He explores how urban infrastructure and citizenship are intertwined with public health in historical contexts.

Recent publications examine themes such as abjection in corpses, fevered anxieties in novels, and the politics of health in Romantic-era National Tales. He is currently finalizing a monograph on health politics in the National Tale genre.

Matthew mentors PhD students interested in Medical Humanities and literature, though specific advisees are not listed. His affiliations and research activities contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Education (SDG4).