Mona Baie

Dr. med. , M.A.

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 mona.baie@unifr.ch
 https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6451-1634

Biography

  • 2012 to 2019: Medical degree, University of Heidelberg; Fellowship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
  • 2015 to 2020: MD Dissertation (Dr. med.), Institute of the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine, University of Heidelberg; title: “The healthiest way of being ill…”? Sprache und Krankheitsmetaphern in dem Nachrichtenmagazin DER SPIEGEL und autobiographischer Literatur über Krebserkrankungen 1973–2013 (Adviser: Prof. Dr. Maike Rotzoll)
  • 10/2020 to 10/2021: M.A., Health Humanities, University College London (UK); Graduate Fellowship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
  • 10/2021 to 02/2023: Affiliated lecturer at the Universities of Heidelberg, Fribourg, and Berne; freelance research associate at the Chair of Medical Humanities, Fribourg University
  • Since 02/2023: PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of Fribourg, doctoral coursework in General and Comparative Literature; PhD project: “The Hospital Narratives: Telling Clinical Spaces in German- and English-language Autopathographical Prose of the 20th and 21st Centuries”
  • Since 06/2023: Research associate, SNSF project “Medical Spaces in Literary Prose of the Long 20th Century” (Prof. Dr. Dr. Martina King; 2023-2027)

Research interests: Medical humanities and spatial studies, German- and English-language literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, history of medicine and the hospital 19th-21st century, illness metaphors, medical didactics

September 2025 to February 2026 Fellowship (Research Trainee) at the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (US) (SNSF Mobility Grant)

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