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Alice Hall
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Biography
Alice Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature.
Alice completed a BA, MPhil and PhD in English at the University of Cambridge. She held a postdoctoral research fellowship at Nottingham University’s interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Studies. Before coming to York she taught at Université Paris VII: Denis Diderot, Université Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle and Cambridge.
Alice’s research interests are in gender, health, disability, care and embodiment. She is particularly interested in modern and contemporary British and American writing. Alice is the author of two research monographs and two edited collections of essays. Her current project explores contemporary narratives about pregnancy and reproductive justice.
Her research has been funded by the AHRC, the Wellcome Trust and the Academy of Medical Sciences. Since being chosen as an AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinker, Alice has made programmes about her research for BBC Radio and BBC Television Arts. She is the co-founder of the interdisciplinary MA in Medical History and Humanities at York and a founding member of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research. Alice is a member of the Wellcome Trust’s Early Career Advisory Group and the editor of the Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society series published by Liverpool University Press.
