Dr Noelle Dückmann Gallagher
Senior Lecturer in 18th C British Literature

Biography
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.
Areas of expertise
- PE English - English literature
- DAW Central Europe - Eighteenth century Britain
- NE Print media - Print culture
- R Medicine (General) - History of Medicine
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Publications
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review