Modern(ist) Mothers in/and the Media: Rhetorical Constructions of Medicalized Maternity across Literary Texts, Popular Magazines, and Hospital Reports

Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop 

 

Heather A. Love, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

 

 

The talk will discuss the American Expressionist play Machinal (Sophie Treadwell, 1928) and an essay Prof. Love co-wrote for Feminist Modernist Studies. To access both play and essay, please contact Rodrigo Martini (English) rodrigo.martinipaula@uga.edu.

             

Heather A. Love (she/her) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), where her research and teaching focus on topics related to early twentieth-century literature, culture, and technology; health humanities; and STEM communication. She is author of Cybernetic Aesthetics: Modernist Networks of Information and Data (2023, Cambridge University Press), and was PI for a Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada-funded project titled “Techno-Mediated Maternity.” Her work has appeared in Modernism/modernity, the Journal of Modern Literature, Feminist Modernist Studies, Medical Humanities, New Literary History, and the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine.

 

Sponsored by the ModSquad, the Willson Center Logo, the English Department Logo, the Jill and Marvin Williams Center for Writing, and the Sterling Goodman Professorship