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Lilith Todd is a PhD candidate in English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation, "Tending Another," describes the rhetoric and labor of nursing in the long eighteenth century and within a global economy. It tackles the ubiquity and necessity of caring for bodies alongside the simultaneous difficulty of representing practices that are non-productive, cyclical, and often gross, and sit precariously between paid and unpaid labor by documenting overlaps and resonances between material and literary practices. Her research has been supported by fellowships at the Lewis Walpole Library, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Winterthur Museum, Library, & Gardens. Her articles on nursing, poetics, and the aesthetics of healthcare can be found in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. 

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