Noelle Gallagher

Teaching

 As above.

Current courses

I teach on the following courses:

ENGL10171: English Literature Tutorials (an introduction to literary studies)

ENGL21182: Satire and the Novel: English Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

ENGL33082: Sex, Disease and the Body 1660-1800

ENGL60882: Before 'Sexuality': Bodies, Desires, Discourses 1660-1830

Manchester Medical School APEP level 3 and level 4: Special Unit (topics vary year on year)

I came to Manchester in September of 2009 after a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University in Montreal. I have previously taught at the University of British Columbia, from which I received my Master's degree, and the University of Chicago, from which I received my PhD. I also have a certification in counselling skills recognised by the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists.

My research focuses on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture, with a particular interest in the health humanities. My most recent book-- Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination-- examines the representation of venereal disease in British literature and graphic art produced between 1660 and 1800. You can find out more by visiting the Yale University Press website: 

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300217056/itch-clap-pox

In the English department, I teach Restoration and eighteenth-century literature.  I lecture on level 1 and level 2 undergraduate modules, and I direct a level 3 seminar on representations of sex, disease, and the body in eighteenth-century art and literature. In the Manchester Medical School, I teach PEPs (special units) on literature and medicine (specific topics vary year on year). At the postgraduate level, I teach on the MA course 'Before "Sexuality": Bodies, Desires, Discourses' in the English department.

My research focuses on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture, with a particular interest in the health humanities. 

My most recent book-- Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination (2019)-- examines the representation of venereal disease in British literature and graphic art produced between 1660 and 1800.  I explore some of the objects and concepts associated with venereal infection in this period, with chapters devoted to considering the links between infection and manliness, prostitution, foreigners, and deformed or missing noses. You can learn more about it by visiting the Yale University Press website: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300217056/itch-clap-pox

My first book, Historical Literatures: Writing about the Past in England 1660-1740 (Manchester University Press, 2012) surveys some of the forms in which Restoration and early-eighteenth-century writers represented their nation's past.  More specifically, it argues that many of the genres that critics now conceive of as "literary" -- genres like verse satire, personal diary, and scandal chronicle-- were also being used, quite self-consciously, as forms of historical writing.  

I've also published on the representation of epidemic disease, cancer, and on the relationships between literature and medicine. Additional research interests include poetic form and genre, satire and satiric theory, the novel, and autobiography.