Lisa Mendelman is Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Menlo College. She holds a PhD in English from UCLA and BA and MA degrees from Stanford University.
She works in the health humanities, with a focus on gender, race, and affect in the twentieth-century US. Her first book, Modern Sentimentalism (Oxford UP, 2019), chronicles the emotional history of the modern woman and the corollary reinvention of sentimentalism in US interwar fiction. Ongoing research interests include the history of mental health and visual and material culture.
An educator and a writer for nearly two decades, Lisa teaches courses on topics ranging from modernist literature and the American bildungsroman to sex and illness in popular culture. Her writing has been published in such venues as American Literary History, Modernism/modernity, The Journal of Cultural Analytics, Games and Culture, ASAP/J, Arizona Quarterly, and Modern Fiction Studies.
Lisa Mendelman 
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