Mary Taylor Mann

Brittain Fellow

Member Of:
  • Writing and Communication Program
Office Phone: 404-894-2000
Office Location: Stephen C. Hall Building
Email Address: mmann60@gatech.edu

Overview

Personal Pronouns:
She/her

Mary Taylor Mann’s research focuses on the intersecting histories of poetry and medicine in the British Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. In her book project, Vascular Aesthetics, Mann argues that Romantic- and Victorian-era poets adapted emerging and entrenched medical ideas about blood to shape how bodies were presented in their poetry. An article based on her research on cerebral circulation in the poetry of William Wordsworth recently appeared in European Romantic Review, and she is currently writing about menstruation myths in Victorian women’s poetry. In the classroom, she integrates methods from bioethics and the health humanities to explore historical and contemporary representations of health, medicine, and embodiment. She earned her Ph.D. in English from Emory University in 2023, and she also holds an M.A. in bioethics from Wake Forest University.


 

Education:
  • Emory University - Ph.D. in English (2023)
  • Wake Forest University - M.A. in Bioethics (2016)
  • Davidson College - B.A. in English (2015)
Areas of
Expertise:
  • Health Humanities
  • History Of Medicine
  • Nineteenth-Century British And Global Anglophone Literature And Culture
  • Poetry And Poetics
  • Romanticism
  • Victorian Literature

Interests

Teaching Interests:
At Georgia Tech, Dr. Mann's teachers first-year writing and communication courses that focus on multimodal communication, critical thinking, and rhetorical analysis. Her course themes are interdisciplinary and usually involve thinking about medicine and health from different disciplinary and artistic perspectives. Her current English Composition II course is called "Poetry and Medicine" and explores how poets have shared the lived experience of illness through their poetry.
Research Interests:
Dr. Mann is a scholar of British and Global Anglophone Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century (1780-1914). Her research focuses specifically on Romantic and Victorian era poets and the relationship between poetry and medicine in the period.
Research Fields:
  • Literary and Cultural Studies
Issues:
  • Bioethics, Bioscience, Biotechnology
  • Literature
  • Poetry

Courses

  • ENGL-1101: English Composition I
  • ENGL-1102: English Composition II

Publications

Journal Articles

Updated:  Jan 26th, 2026 at 4:21 PM