Associate Professor

(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996)

Associate Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society

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Holly Tucker's research focuses on the intersections of early-modern medicine and literature.  She  is currently working on a cultural study of the shifting boundaries of the human in the wake of new early-modern medical technologies (blood transfusion, xenotransplantation, and microscopy).

Professor Tucker has received funding for her research from the Newberry Library, the Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine, and from Vanderbilt's Research Scholar Fellowship program. Professor Tucker was Jacque Vogeli Fellow and co-director of Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Fellows' Program (2005-2006) and served as Acting Chair of the Department of French & Italian (2004-2005).  She is presently Associate Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.

Recent publications include articles in Clinical Genetics, MLA Approaches to Teaching Literature, as well as books: Pregnant Fictions:  Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France (2003); SLA and the Literature Classroom:  Fostering Dialogues (co-editor, 2001); and Reframing the Early French Tale, a special issue of Marvel & Tales for which she served as guest editor (2005).

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Fellow, R.P. Warren Center for the Humanities (2005-2006:  Premodern Others:  Race and Sexuality; 2002-2003:  Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Politics)

Early-Modern Cultural Studies Group (Vanderbilt)

Affiliated faculty member:  Women’s Studies, Comparative Literature, European Studies

Teaching Outside of the Classroom

Director, Vanderbilt-in-France, summer 2003

Mayfield Living-Learning Center, faculty adviser

McTyeire International House, faculty adviser

Humanities 115W:  Critical Approaches to Fairy Tales (First-year seminar)