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Tabitha Sparks is an Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at McGill University. She specializes in 19th-century British literature with a focus on the Victorian novel, literature and medicine, and narrative theory. Her work bridges literary analysis with medical humanities, examining themes of identity, representation, and social reform in works by authors like Wilkie Collins, Margaret Harkness, and Dinah Mulock Craik.
Sparks earned her B.A. from Bates College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Her research explores intersections between medical practices and literary forms, including studies on contagion narratives, sensational fiction, and the portrayal of gendered illness in Victorian texts. She has held fellowships at Emory University's MARBL and the Digital Humanities Institute, and was awarded the Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Her publications include Victorian Metafiction (2022), Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture (co-edited, 2015), and The Doctor in the Victorian Novel: Family Practices (2009). She has published widely in journals such as Journal of Victorian Culture and Nineteenth-Century Contexts, analyzing topics ranging from medical Gothic to the ethics of representation in marginalized narratives.
Sparks has taught at McGill since 2005, previously serving at the University of Washington, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Emory University. Her current research projects include studies on Victorian women's sentimental fiction and the role of narrative in medical education.
