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Ashley GIRTY

Ashley GIRTY
Contact Information
Email address: 
ashley.girty [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Biography: 

Ashley Girty is a doctoral student at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ. Her dissertation, “Literary Entertainment and Medicine in Early Modern Europe" examines literature and medicine as co-constitutive fields, surveying sermon, drama, and other such entertainments as sites of healthcare commentary in an era of medical professionalization, while also tracing how health concerns permeated reading practices, theatre-going, and the consumption of literary entertainment in the early modern period.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D., Ï㽶ÊÓƵ (exp. 2018)
M.A., University of Windsor, 2011
B.A. (Hons), University of Windsor, 2009

Current research: 
  • Literary depictions of doctors and doctoring
  • Disease, metaphor, and moral philosophy
  • Early modern sermon
  • Early modern reading and theatre-going practices as they relate to health maintenance
  • Literary aspects of early modern medical advertising and pageantry
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