Emily Waples is Associate Professor and the Carol C. Donley Ph.D. ’60 Endowed Chair of Biomedical Humanities and Director of the Center for Literature and Medicine at Hiram College. She earned her B.A. from Vassar College, M.St. from the University of Oxford, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her essays have been published in River Teeth (named among “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction” in The Best American Essays 2022), Southern Humanities Review, The Los Angeles Review, Fourth Genre, and in addition Emily’s critical and creative work has appeared in Ploughshares, Creative Nonfiction, Gothic Studies, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture, and elsewhere.
Emily’s memoir in essays, UNLIKELY, is forthcoming from The University of Georgia Press, The Crux Series, in Spring 2027.