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publications
Breaking the Rules: Autistic-Led Pedagogy in Literary Studies
Published in The Polyphony, 2024
This paper explores the academic potential and benefits to autistic academics from adopting an autistic-led pedagogical model within literary studies, particularly within close reading.
Recommended citation: Brook, Laura. (2024). "Breaking the Rules: Autistic-Led Pedagogy in Literary Studies." The Polyphony. https://thepolyphony.org/2024/07/26/autistic-led-pedagogy-literary-studies/.
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Scalpels and Sonnets: John Keats, Thomas Wakley, and Corruption in Early Nineteenth-Century London Medical Schools
Published in Essays in Romanticism 34.1, 2027
This paper explores a network of corruption in the London medical schools within the early nineteenth century and how this contributed to the poet John Keats’s decision to leave the medical profession.
Recommended citation: Brook, Laura. (2027). "Scalpels and Sonnets: John Keats, Thomas Wakley, and Corruption in Early Nineteenth-Century London Medical Schools." Essays in Romanticism. 34(1).
John Keats and the Early Nineteenth-Century Patient
Published in The Palgrave Handbook of Tuberculosis and Consumption in Literature and Culture, 2027
This chapter explores the lived experiences of the poet John Keats and how he has become synonymous with the consumptive patient in the early nineteenth century. Forthcoming.
Recommended citation: Brook, Laura. (2027). "John Keats and the Early Nineteenth-Century Patient." The Palgrave Handbook of Tuberculosis and Consumption in Literature and Culture. Edited by Clark Lawlor and Katherine Byrne.
talks
Quarantining Keats: Palliation, Isolation and the Poet-Patient
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A presentation exploring Keats’s time in quarantine in Naples en route to Rome, and how it related to themes of isolation and palliation in his earlier works.
‘Coffin’d bones, and funeral stole’: Keats’s Isabella and the Politics of Bodysnatching
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A presentation exploring Keats’s poem ‘Isabella, or the Pot of Basil’ and how its representation of unearthing relates to the contemporary context of bodysnatching in aid of medical research.
‘The Patient/Patriot K.’: John Keats, Guy’s Hospital and the Politics of Power
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A presentation on the political landscape surrounding Keats’s time as a medical student at Guy’s Hospital, and its influence on his work.
‘Deathwards progressing / To no death’: Keatsian immortality and the two Hyperions
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A presentation on the shifting representations of immortality in Keats’s ‘Hyperion’ and ‘The Fall of Hyperion’, and their connections to Keats’s biography.
Physician, Poet, Patient: John Keats, Epistemic Violence, and Contemporary Medical Journals
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A presentation on the representation of John Keats’s life and work in modern medical journals and the perils which arise when disciplines struggle to communicate.
‘I am merely a poet dying far from home’: The Many Deaths of John Keats
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An online seminar with feedback on the representations of Keats’s death in media from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and what they can tell us about Keats’s legacy as patient.
Breaking the Rules: Autistic-Led Pedagogy in Literary Studies
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An overview of a proposed model of neurodivergent- and particularly autistic-led pedagogy, and the potential benefits for neurodivergent academics.
teaching
Literary Studies 1A
Undergraduate course, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, 2022
Planned and delivered tutorials to first-year undergraduates, teaching critical approaches to poetry.
Literary Studies 1B
Undergraduate course, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, 2023
Planned and delivered tutorials to first-year undergraduates, teaching critical approaches to prose.
Sutton Trust
Workshop, University of Edinburgh, 2023
Worked with young people from underprivileged backgrounds in both a hybrid and a fully in-person format, supporting widening access to higher education.