PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow
Biographical Sketch: Paul Blom is a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Department of English. His research focuses on twentieth-century American literature and its intersections with health humanities and literary trauma studies, primarily the ethical and political implications of representations of psychological trauma in literature and other media. He is a Yale University Summer Session Teaching Fellow for a study-abroad course on visual epidemiology and global health communication and serves as the co-director for UNC’s Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium. His research has involved extensive work with underserved populations regarding trauma, illness, embodiment, and representation.