Mona Baie

Dr. med. , M.A.

Biography

Mona Baie, MD, MA, is research associate at the Chair of Medical Humanities at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
She studied medicine, health humanities, and literature in Heidelberg, London, and Fribourg. In her PhD project in Comparative Literature she explores the semantics of clinical spaces in German- and English-language autopathographical prose (1950-present). Her research interests include medical humanities and spatial studies, German and English literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, history of medicine and the hospital from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, illness metaphors, and medical didactics.

Research and publications

  • Publications
    10 publications

    «Krankenhaus, ach Krankenhaus»: Zur Bedeutung des Klinikraums in David Wagners ‹Leben› und ‹Verkin› im Kontext neuerer architektonischer Raumtheorien (in Vorbereitung) , in Das Medikale im Werk David Wagners
    Mona Baie (2025) | Book chapter

    Zeit der Diagnose: Erzählstruktur und Endlichkeitsreflexion in Ruth Schweikerts Autopathographie ‹Tage wie Hunde› (im Druck) , in Figuren der Diagnostik
    Mona Baie (2025) | Book chapter

    «A Featureless Landscape of Humiliation and Loss»: Clinical Spaces and the Politics of Disability in Hilary Mantel’s ‹Giving Up the Ghost› (im Druck) , in Literary and Cultural Disability Studies
    Mona Baie (2025) | Book chapter

    Krankheit und Medizin (mit Martina King) , in Zauberberg-Handbuch
    Mona Baie (2025) | Book chapter

Teaching and courses

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