Sari Altschuler, Associate Professor of English, Associate Director of the Northeastern Humanities Center, and Founding Director of the Health, Humanities, and Society minor, has published an article in a special issue of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities. “After the Outbreak: Narrative, Infrastructure, and Pandemic Time” examines the proliferation and failure of narratives accounting for life during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Key to that failure is a difficulty narrating the infrastructural causes of pandemics, a difficulty that has its roots in the nineteenth-century origins of modern global health. Finally, the essay considers what we might learn from people who lived with truly global pandemics of this sort in the past.
Sari Altschuler Publishes Article on Infrastructure of Emergency
