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Rachel C. Bracken, PHD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Rootstown, Ohio

Rachel Conrad Bracken (she/her) is an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and humanities faculty in the Medical Ethics and Humanities graduate program at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED). Before joining the faculty at NEOMED in 2018, Bracken earned a Ph.D. in literature from Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she was affiliated with the Centers for Critical and Cultural Theory, Teaching Excellence, and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

Bracken's research appears or is forthcoming in American Literary History; Journal of Medical Humanities; Medical Teacher; International Journal of Qualitative Methods; The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Health Humanities; English Language Notes (ELN); Public: Art | Culture | Ideas; Big Data and Society; and the collection Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations (Rutgers UP, 2018), among others. As a scholar of American literature and the health humanities, her research explores the intersection of U.S. Literature and the histories of medicine and public health at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as issues of embodiment, social responsibility, and health technology in contemporary health policy and speculative fiction. Bracken's research also explores the scholarship of teaching in the health humanities, including the value of near-peer narrative for introducing core concepts in the health humanities and reflective practice in medical education. Most recently, her work has focused on disability-focused medical education, supported by a NEOMED Teaching Innovation Award and aStrategic Initiative Funding Award, as well as an Emerging Innovators Grant from the National Board of Medical Examiners in 2024.

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