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Name	Jessica Wright
Position	Assistant Professor of Classics and Medical Humanities
Institutional Affiliation	University of Texas at San Antonio
Latitude	29.424349
Longitude	-98.491142
Research Interests	Late Antiquity; ancient medicine, science, and philosophy; early Christianity; history of the body; Classics and social justice
Websites	https://utsa.academia.edu/JessicaLWright
Publications	BOOKS In preparation: The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity. The Jesuits in Ethiopia (1609-1641): Latin Letters in Translation. Translated by Jessica Wright and Leon Grek, introduced by Leonardo Cohen, edited by Wendy Laura Belcher (Äthiopistische Forschungen series. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017). PEER-REVIEW ARTICLES “The Brain is a Treasury of Marrow: Theodoret’s Marginal Metaphor of the Brain,” Studies in Late Antiquity 2.4 (expected November 2018). “John Chrysostom and the Rhetoric of Cerebral Vulnerability,” Studia Patristica 81.7, 109–126. “Between Despondency and the Demon: Diagnosing and Treating Spiritual Disorders in John Chrysostom's Letter to Stageirios,” Journal of Late Antiquity 8.2, 352–367. BOOK CHAPTERS “Brain, Nerves, and Ecclesial Membership in John Chrysostom,” in (Re)Visioning John Chrysostom: New Theories and Approaches, edited by Chris L. De Wet and Wendy Mayer. Leiden: Brill (expected Fall 2018). “Humanizing the Brain in Early Christianity,” in Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse, edited by Jamie Thomas and Christina Jackson. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (expected Fall 2018). BOOK REVIEWS Jason König and Greg Woolf, eds., Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). The Ancient Jew Review, 2018. Chiara Thumiger, A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). BMCR, March 2018. Jane Draycott and Emma-Jayne Graham, eds., Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2017). Endeavour 41.4 (2017): 212–213. Orly Lewis, Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse and Pneuma. Studies in Ancient Medicine, 48 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017). BMCR, July 2017. PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP (OPEN-ACCESS) “Brain and Soul in Late Antiquity,” The Ancient Jew Review, 2017. “Crazy Talk: The Dangerous Rhetoric of Mental Illness,” Eidolon, 2017. “Latin Behind Bars: Teaching Latin in an American Prison,” Eidolon, 2017. “Talking to Strangers (in Latin): Teaching Latin in the Prison Classroom,” Cloelia, 2016.