{"id":2,"date":"2011-06-07T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T10:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hollytucker\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-02-02T21:52:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:52:36","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hollytucker\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/06\/Tucker-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-199\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/06\/Tucker-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Tucker headshot\" width=\"142\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Holly Tucker is the Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities and Professor in French. She\u00a0teaches a wide range of classes at Vanderbilt, from first-year seminars to graduate-level seminars on medicine, literature, and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Across her research, Professor Tucker focuses how literature and medicine intersect in the early-modern period. Her work has been reviewed in\u00a0<em>Nature,<\/em>\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>The Economist<\/em>, among others, and has been featured\u00a0as well on NPR, <em>The Atlantic,\u00a0<\/em>Scientific<em> American, <\/em>in addition to journals\u00a0specific to her field.\u00a0 Tucker is the recipient of the Ellen Gregg Ingall&#8217;s award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the VU Chancellor&#8217;s Award for Excellence in Research.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Tucker&#8217;s publications include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0(W.W. Norton, 2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Blood Work:\u00a0 A Tale of Medicine &amp; Murder in the Scientific Revolution<\/em><\/strong> (W.W. Norton, 2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Pregnant Fictions:\u00a0 Childbirth &amp; the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France<\/em><\/strong> (Wayne State\u00a0UP, 2003)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Holly Tucker is the Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities and Professor in French. She\u00a0teaches a wide range of classes at Vanderbilt, from first-year seminars to graduate-level seminars on medicine, literature, and culture. Across her research, Professor Tucker focuses how literature and medicine intersect in the early-modern period. Her work has been reviewed in\u00a0Nature,\u00a0The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hollytucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hollytucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hollytucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hollytucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hollytucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hollytucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hollytucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hollytucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/hollytucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}