Midia Mohammadi is a PhD student at University College Dublin. Her project, entitled “Narcissistic Women In Search of Lost Selfhood: A Study in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Fiction,” is an interdisciplinary project that inspects the figure of the narcissistic woman in modern American fiction. She has been a member of the Irish Association for American Studies since 2021. Midia interned for #DouglassWeek2022, a collaborative event series organized by prominent scholars and activists in the US and Ireland that celebrates the arrival of Frederick Douglass in different countries around the world.

Book Review: Female Physicians in American Literature: Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture by Margaret Jay Jessee

Margaret Jay Jessee. Female Physicians in American Literature: Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture (New York: Routledge, 2021). pp. 108. £44.99. Female Physicians in American Literature: Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture (2022) asserts that it is not the first time in the history of America that previously claimed rights are being… Continue reading