Projects

• Health Humanities Initiative

  (Arizona State University)

• CHCI Medical Humanities Institute: Space, Place and Design (University of Southern Denmark)

  (University of Southern Denmark)

• CHCI Medical Humanities Institute: Global Health (University of Miami)

  (University of Miami)

biography

Fella Benabed is a professor of global Anglophone literature at the English department of Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University in Algeria. In her research, she is interested in the postcolonial, narrative, ecological, and medical approaches to literature. She is a US Department of State alumna: she took part in the Study of the United States Institute on Contemporary American Literature, University of Louisville, Kentucky (2011), and she was a Fulbright senior visiting scholar at Columbia University in the city of New York (2021) where she worked on “Nervous Conditions in African Literature.” She led a research project entitled “Literature and Medicine: Nurturing Clinical Empathy and Holistic Care,” and she authored a book entitled Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel (De Gruyter, 2024).

research interests

Literature, medicine, psychology