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Pamela Gilbert is a Professor at the University of Florida, holding the Albert Brick Professorship. She specializes in Victorian literature with a focus on the history of the body, medicine, and realism. Her research bridges literary studies with medical humanities, examining themes such as race, disease, and social reform in 19th-century texts. She has authored Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History (2019) and edited Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1860s (2024). Gilbert is affiliated with the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and co-founded CISMaC (Collective for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medicine and Culture). She has held prestigious fellowships including the Guggenheim (2016) and a residency at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (2023). Her teaching includes courses on Victorian literature, literature and medicine, and gender/class studies.
Her research extends to popular literature and medical narratives, exploring how Victorian writers engaged with health crises like cholera and tuberculosis. Recent work addresses pandemic narratives and the intersection of personal and collective responsibility. Gilbert serves on the executive committee of NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association) and edits the SUNY Press series Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.
