Anne Stiles , Ph.D.
Professor
Department of English
Coordinator
Medical Humanities Interdisciplinary Minor Program
Education
Ph.D. in English, UCLA, 2006
B.A. in English, Harvard College, 1998
Practice Areas
Stiles teaches courses on nineteenth-century British and American literature, science fiction, children's literature, and medical humanities. She is interested in working with graduate and undergraduate students researching these and related subjects.
Research Interests
Stiles's research explores intersections between literature, science, and religion in nineteenth-century Britain and North America. She is the author of Children鈥檚 Literature and the Rise of 鈥淢ind Cure鈥�: Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Si猫cle (Cambridge UP, 2020) and Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge UP, 2012). She edited Neurology and Literature, 1866-1920 (Palgrave, 2007) and co-edited two volumes published by Elsevier in 2013 as part of their Progress in Brain Research series. She has held long-term grants from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (AY 2016-2017); the Huntington Library (AY 2009-2010); and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AY 2006-2007).
Publications and Media Placements
Books
Children鈥檚 Literature and the Rise of 鈥淢ind Cure鈥�: Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Si猫cle. Cambridge University Press, December 2020.
Literature, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical and Literary Connections. Co-edited and introduced by Anne Stiles, Stanley Finger, and Fran莽ois Boller. Elsevier's
Progress in Brain Research series, vol. 205. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2013.
Literature, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders. Co-edited and introduced by Stanley Finger, Fran莽ois Boller, and Anne Stiles. Elsevier's Progress in Brain Research series, vol. 206. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2013.
Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, December 2011.
Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920. Edited and introduced by Anne Stiles. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, September 2007.
Special Issues of Journals:
Special issue of the journal Literature and Medicine, 鈥淎lternative Approaches to Health and Wellness in the Nineteenth Century.鈥� Co-edited by Anne Stiles and Kristine Swenson. Vol. 39.1 (Spring 2021).
Special issue of the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature, 鈥淣ew Religious Movements and Secularization.鈥� Co-convened by Deanna Kreisel, Charles LaPorte, Sebastian Lecourt, and Anne Stiles. Vol. 73.2-3 (September and December, 2018).