Jess Libow is Assistant Professor of English at the Community College of Philadelphia. She is the author of Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century UnitedStates (UNC Press 2025). Her scholarship has been published in American Literature, the Journal of Medical Humanities,J19, Legacy, College Composition and Communication, and elsewhere. Her writing has also appeared in venues including the Los Angeles Review of Books,Public Books, and TheLancet.
