Uma Satyavolu Rau
استاد آموزشی · Nineteenth-Century British Literature
University of Pittsburghمعرفی
Uma Satyavolu Rau is a Teaching Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Her affiliations include the Center for Bioethics and Health Law, First Year Programs, and Health Humanities. She specializes in interdisciplinary education, bridging literary studies with medical humanities and scientific knowledge. Rau coordinates the Health Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows program, focusing on humanities education for students entering healthcare fields.
Her research interests span Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Global Literatures, Aesthetics, and Poetry. She emphasizes the intersection of imaginative literature with factual knowledge, as seen in courses like Literature and Medicine, which forms part of the Health Humanities Certificate program. Rau has taught over 30 courses, including Victorian Literature, Medical Humanities, and interdisciplinary seminars like 'Migrant Wor(l)ds.'
She actively promotes undergraduate education through innovative courses such as 'Narrative and Graphic Perspectives in Health Humanities,' emphasizing diversity and inclusion in medical contexts. Her work reflects a commitment to Beauty and Truth in transhistorical, transcultural scholarship.
