Virginia Langum is Pro Futura Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study at Uppsala University and an Associate Professor of English literature at Umeå University. Her research interests lie in the connections between literature, medicine and religion. She is also a member of Sweden’s Young Academy. Before moving to Sweden, she earned a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge; a master’s degree in Medieval and Renaissance Literature also from Cambridge; a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia; and a bachelor’s degree in English from Trinity College, Dublin.
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