Headshot-2023Lisa Mendelman is Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Menlo College and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. She works in the mental health humanities, with a focus on the twentieth-century US.

Her current book project, Pathologies of Character, details the social roots of mental health diagnoses in the 65 years leading up to the DSM-I (1952). 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.

Lisa teaches courses on topics ranging from modernist literature and American mental health to sex and illness in popular culture. Her writing has been published in such venues as Pediatrics, American Literary History, Modernism/modernity, The Journal of Cultural Analytics, Games and Culture, ASAP/J, Arizona Quarterly, and Modern Fiction Studies. She holds a PhD in English from UCLA and BA and MA degrees from Stanford University.