Noelle Gallagher

My research focuses on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and graphic art, with a particular interest in the medical humanities.  I am currently working on a book about literary and visual representations of the gout (a form of inflammatory arthritis) in Georgian Britain.

My first book, Historical Literatures: Writing About the Past in Britain 1660-1740, explored the ways in which literary genres like memoir, secret history, and poetic satire contributed to the development of Enlightenment historiography. Further details of this monograph are available here:

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719087622/

My second book-- Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination-- examined depictions 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.co.uk/book/9780300217056/itch-clap-pox/

Here in the English department, I teach specialty modules on 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 'Before "Sexuality": Bodies, Desires, Discourses'.

Current courses

I teach on the following courses:

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

ENGL21182: Satire and Sentiment: 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)