Arthur Rose

Research: My work, which focuses on asbestos narratives, intersects with the interests of the project in two ways. First, the “hidden epidemic” of asbestos related diseases challenges depoliticized distinctions between epidemics and endemic environmental contamination, while also problematizing the notion of the end (mesothelioma, for instance, may take anywhere up to 50 years to develop). Second, existing models in narrative theory and narratology might nuance Charles Rosenberg’s influential notion of the epidemic dramaturgy (1989), thereby offering new directions for epidemic historiography.

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Relevant publications include:

Rose, A. Asbestos: The Last Modernist Object (EUP, under contract)