Professor Anne Stiles
IAS Open Programme
Saint Louis University
Anne Stiles is Professor of English and Coordinator of the Medical Humanities Interdisciplinary Minor at Saint Louis University. She is the author of Children’s Literature and the Rise of “Mind Cure”: Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge UP, 2020) and Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge UP, 2012) and the editor of Neurology and Literature, 1866-1920 (Palgrave, 2007).
She has held long-term grants from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (AY 2016-2017); the Huntington Library (AY 2009-2010); and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AY 2006-2007). Her current monograph, Scientific Afterlives: The Unexpected Legacies of Mistaken Theories, 1860-1930, under advance contract with Cambridge UP, explores the consequences of mistaken, misunderstood, or misapplied discoveries in atomic physics circa 1900, focusing on literature by Marie Corelli and H.G. Wells and religious writings by Helena Blavatsky.
During their IAS Fellowship, Professor Stiles will be collaborating with Professor Sarah Parker from the Department of English.