Narin Hassan

About

Narin Hassan is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester. Her research and teaching interests include Victorian literature and culture, gender studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies, health humanities, and critical yoga studies. Her notable work includes her book, Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility, which explores the figure of the woman doctor within the context of Victorian colonial and scientific expansion. She has published extensively in various academic journals and chapters, and is currently completing a book manuscript titled 'Vital Exchanges: Embodiment, Travel, and Gendered Cultures of Yoga,' examining the intersections of gender and colonialism that influenced yoga's global popularity and ideas about health in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hassan has also co-edited special issues on topics such as yoga in Muslim contexts and global health humanities, and has served as Vice President and President of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) organization.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Geography
• Sociology
• Political Science
• History
• Engineering
• Aesthetics
• Pathology
• Art
• Virology

Selected publications

• Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility

  2011-06-28 · 27 citations

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  Contents: Introduction: medicine and mobility: women, travel and the circulation of colonial knowledge Public anatomies: female travel writers and colonial knowledge Tools, tinctures, and texts: fashioning and marketing the 'doctress' of empire Female prescriptions: women, medical travel and professional medicine in India Writing reform: narrating the 'new woman' and female medical education in India Epilogue Works cited Index.

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• Milk Markets: Technology, the Lactating Body, and New Forms of Consumption

  Women's studies quarterly · 2010-09-01 · 16 citations

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  In early chapters of Charles Dickens s 1848 novel; Dombey and Son, Mr. Dombey, a thriving industrialist, is forced to hire a lower-class wet nurse to sustain his family name and the Dombey commercial empire. After the death of his wife, the wet nurse, Polly is the primary source of nourishment and comfort for his only son; to her he states: It is not at all in this bargain that you need become attached to my child, or that my need become attached to you. I don't expect or desire anything of the…

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• Global Health Humanities in transition

  Medical Humanities · 2022-06-01 · 8 citations

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• Travelers, Translators, and Spiritual Mothers: Yoga, Gender, and Colonial Histories

  Race and Yoga · 2020 · 4 citations

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  Analyzing the work of women traveling to India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this essay explores the intersections of gender, race, and colonial history and connects them to contemporary cultures of yoga. It suggests that analyzing gender in colonial contexts provides a way to understand the dynamics of yoga cultures more fully, and to place them within a historical and cultural frame. As a mind-body practice that was initially becoming consumed by Western audiences and by wom…

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• Feeding Empire: Wet Nursing and Colonial Domesticity in India

  Nineteenth Century Contexts · 2016-09-05 · 4 citations

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  In her travel narrative Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan (1835), Emma Roberts notes the vulnerability of European families in India and the particular struggles of mothers and young infants:...

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Frequent coauthors

• Jason G. Mezey

  Cornell University

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• Zacharias P. Thundy

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• Deanne Marie Williams

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• Maya S. Dodd

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• Jennifer Wenzel

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• Tilusha Ghelani

  Bournville College

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• Amit Ghosh

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• Prathima Anandan

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