Cora Fox

Cora Fox is Associate Dean of Health Humanities in the School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering and Director of Humanities Integration for ASU Health. She is also Associate Professor in the Department of English. She has led an initiative to develop research capacity in the health humanities at ASU since 2013, and she co-directs the Health Humanities Initiative in the Humanities Institute. She is the author of Ovid and the Politics of Emotion in Elizabethan England (Palgrave, 2009) and co-edited, with Bradley Irish and Cassie Miura, Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Manchester UP, 2021) and with Barbara Weiden Boyd, the MLA Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition (2010). Her current work focuses on the cultural histories and politics of positive emotions, as well as the role of narrative in shaping notions of care and community, particularly their exclusions. She is currently working on a book on representations of healthy communities in early modern England.