Affiliations: English, Women’s Studies, Trent Center, Global Health, Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS)

Priscilla Wald’s current work focuses on the intersections among law, literature, science, and medicine. Her book-length study, Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (Duke University Press, 2008), considers the intersection of medicine and myth in the idea of contagion and the evolution of the contemporary stories we tell about the global health problem of “emerging infections.” Click here for more info.