Melanie Gregg

Melanie E. Gregg, Ph.D., is a professor of humanities in the Division of Arts and Letters at Wilson College, where she directs the Healthcare and Medical Humanities program. Her early scholarship focused on sixteenth-century and early twentieth-century French poetry, Renaissance medical texts, and gender studies. Over time, her research interests have expanded to include clinical and illness narratives, health humanities, disability studies, and narrative medicine.  

Gregg is currently working on a long-term, multi-part project exploring the life and work of poet Renée Vivien. She is also engaged in several other research initiatives centered on disability studies, cognitive poetics, and communication equity. In addition, she is the co-founder of Intersecting Minds: A NeuroHumanities & Consciousness Collective, a group of scholars, students, and clinicians dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary research at the intersections of neuroscience, the humanities, and consciousness studies.

She earned her doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis.