Lesley Thulin
Lesley Thulin is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the George Washington University. She specializes in eighteenth-century British and Anglophone literatures, British Romanticism, and disability studies, with related interests in the history of medicine, race and empire, gender, and critical theory. Her scholarship has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Life and Eighteenth-Century Studies. She is currently working on a book project, Formal Accommodations: Disability and Political Economy in Romantic Literature, and a co-edited volume on disability and the archive. Her public-facing writing has appeared in Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal.
Thulin is a co-chair of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ Disability Studies Caucus, and she spent the past several years working on a multi-campus research initiative at the University of California called “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice: Mapping Inequity and Renewing the Social.”
18th-Century British and Anglophone Literatures; British Romanticism; Disability Studies; Health Humanities
Refereed Journal Articles:
“Disability’s Abstraction in Tristram Shandy and Persuasion.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 58.2 (2025): 169-188.
With Rachel C. Lee and Abraham Encinas, “‘Settler Maintenance’ and Migrant Domestic Worker Ecologies of Care.” Care in the Environmental Humanities, special issue of Humanities 13.6 (2024): 164.
“‘My Case,’ Her Cure: William Hay’s Permissible Gender Fluidity and Mrs. Stephens’s Controversy.” Eighteenth-Century Life 46.2 (2022): 1-29.
Reviews:
Review of Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, Health Communism (New York: Verso Books, 2022). Critical Inquiry 50.3 (2024): 583-584.
Review of D. Christopher Gabbard and Susannah B. Mintz, eds., A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020). Eighteenth-Century Studies 57.3 (2024): 397-399.
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2025
M.St., University of Oxford, 2016
B.A., Columbia University, 2014