Perry Guevara

Assistant Professor

Member Of:
  • School of Literature, Media, and Communication

Overview

Perry Guevara is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Literature in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He specializes in cognitive literary studies, and his research brings together literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with neuroscience, ecology, and the history of medicine. His writing has appeared in Public BooksShakespeare StudiesConfigurationsEarly Modern Culture, Renaissance Quarterly, and in several edited collections.

Education:
  • PhD, English, Emory University
  • MA, English, Georgetown University
  • BA, English and Spanish, University of Alabama
Awards and
Distinctions:
  • Visiting Scholar, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society, University of California, Berkeley
  • Scholars Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research, Emory University
  • Folger Institute Consortium Grant
  • Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program
Areas of
Expertise:
  • Cognitive Literary Studies
  • Early Modern Literature
  • Health Humanities
  • History Of Medicine

Courses

  • LMC-3219: Literature & Medicine
  • LMC-3228: Shakespeare