Eeva Savolainen
Published: 12 December 2024
Eeva's PhD examines Gothic representations of diagnostic anxieties in Britain from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century.
Eeva is a doctoral researcher working in the field of English Literature at the University of Stirling and the University of Glasgow. Her doctoral project Gothic Diagnostics in British Fiction 1830-1897 examines the gothicisation of diagnostic anxieties in the nineteenth-century medical Gothic. Her PhD is funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.
Her research interests include nineteenth-century medical fiction and in particular, the medical Gothic, representations of doctor-patient relationships in fiction, and the history of diagnostics and disease classification.