Cynthia J Davis

Cynthia J. Davis is a Professor of English and an Associate Dean at the University of South Carolina. She specializes in US literature from the Civil War to World War II, with emphases in medical humanities, literary history, and gender studies. Her essays have appeared in such journals as American Literature, American Literary History, and Arizona Quarterly. Her other books include a study of the influence of medicine on American Literature from 1845 to 1915 (Stanford, 2000) and a biography of...See more

Cynthia J. Davis is a Professor of English and an Associate Dean at the University of South Carolina. She specializes in US literature from the Civil War to World War II, with emphases in medical humanities, literary history, and gender studies. Her essays have appeared in such journals as American Literature, American Literary History, and Arizona Quarterly. Her other books include a study of the influence of medicine on American Literature from 1845 to 1915 (Stanford, 2000) and a biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Stanford, 2010). See less