Hosana Krienke

Hosanna Krienke received her PhD in English from Northwestern University in 2016. Her research interests include nineteenth-century British literature, medical humanities and narrative ethics. Before moving to Wyoming, Dr. Krienke completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford, working on the interdisciplinary research project “Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives.” Her first book, Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Afterlife of Victorian Illness is coming out with Cambridge University Press in the summer of 2021. This book uncovers an untold history of post-acute holistic caregiving in Victorian Britain, a history that reorients how scholars talk about the rise of hospital medicine, the importance of lay caregivers, and the narrative form of the illness experience in the nineteenth century. As a teacher, Dr. K designs courses that facilitate interdisciplinary conversations in which art, literature, and history can inform contemporary social and political debates.  

Research

Dr. Hosanna Krienke's work explores how history and literature, particularly that of 19^th century Britain, can offer new models of thinking through pressing modern-day issues in medicine, technology, and science. Specifically, her research explores the meeting-point between the humanities and the sciences by showing how narrative expectations shape ideas of physical recovery, both in the Victorian era and now. Her fields of expertise include literary theory, disability studies, medical humanities, and the history of science/technology.