Rate My Professor Martha Stoddard-Holmes

Stoddard-Holmes's research examines representations of disability and illness as embodied social identities in Victorian cultural studies, comics, and personal narratives. Her landmark book, Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2004), has received 462 citations. Key publications include Thinking Through Pain (Literature and Medicine, 2005), Victorian Fictions of Interdependency: Gaskell, Craik, and Yonge (2007), Cancer Comics: Narrating Cancer through Sequential Art (Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 2013), and chapters on disability in Jane Eyre, The Secret Garden, sensation fiction, and Frankenstein. She co-edited A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury) with Joyce L. Huff and has published creative nonfiction on ovarian cancer, including Body Without Organs nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2013-2014, she received the Harry E. Brakebill Distinguished Professor Award, California State University, San Marcos's highest faculty honor, nominated by students and colleagues. Her influence extends through editorial contributions, public essays, and facilitating writing groups blending pedagogy with somatic and artistic practices.