BIOGRAPHY

Matty Hemming is the Janice G. Doty Lecturer in Medical Humanities at Rice University. She received PhD in English and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024. She is currently working on her first book, which offers a literary history of twentieth-century reproductive healthcare. Titled Writing Reproductive Injustice: Narrative Refusal and the History of Healthcare, the project explores how transatlantic literary writers such as Nella Larsen, Jean Rhys, and Toni Morrison critiqued reproductive injustices in Britain and the United States by harnessing aesthetic and political tactics of refusal. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in Modernism/ Modernity, Medical Humanities, The James Baldwin Review, and the Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies.