About
SARI ALTSCHULER
is associate professor of English and founding director of the Health, Humanities, and Society Program at Northeastern University. Her research focuses primarily on American literature and culture before 1865, disability studies, and the health humanities, broadly understood.
She is the author of The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), co-editor of Keywords for Health Humanities (NYU Press, 2023) with Jonathan Metzl and Priscilla Wald, and co-editor of Health Humanities: An Introduction (under contract with NYU Press) with Corinna Treitel. Her work has appeared in leading journals, including PMLA, American Literature, American Literary History, Early American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and the medical journal the Lancet. She is coeditor with Priscilla Wald of a forum in American Literature on COVID-19. Altschuler serves or has served on the advisory or editorial boards of American Literature, American Quarterly, Early American Literature, J19, and Literature and Medicine. She has received awards from the Society of Early Americanists, the Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic, the Disability History Association, the Melville Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the American Literature Society and long-term funding from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (University of Pennsylvania), the American Antiquarian Society, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (with Christopher M. Parsons), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (with Sophie Vasset), and the Wellesley College Newhouse Center for the Humanities. She was an assistant professor of English and core faculty member of the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University before joining the Northeastern faculty, and she was an invited professor at the Université Paris Cité in 2020.
Currently she directs Touch This Page! Making Sense of the Ways We Read, an award-winning multi-local and online exhibition about the multisensory experiences of reading with David Weimer and chairs the Critical Health Humanities seminar at Harvard University’s Mahindra Humanities Center with Amy Boesky and David Jones.