Dr. Melanie E. Gregg (Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis) is Associate Professor of Humanities in the Division of Arts and Letters at Wilson College, where she directs the program in Healthcare and Medical Humanities. Early in her career, her scholarship and publications were devoted to sixteenth-century and early twentieth-century French poetry, Renaissance medical texts, translation, and Early Modern gender studies. With time and opportunity, her research interests have expanded to include clinical and illness narratives, health humanities, and Narrative Medicine. She is currently working on several projects devoted to the AngloAmerican Francophone poet Renée Vivien.