Haejoo Kim specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and health humanities. Her research examines how the rhetoric of health and medicine shapes liberal subjectivity through an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together literary studies, the cultural history of medicine, critical race studies, and disability studies. Her publications include: “The Rhetoric of Hydropathy and Lay Medical Agency in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain” (Literature and Medicine 39.1, 2021), “Vegetarian Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Britain” (Journal of Victorian Culture 26.4, 2021), and “The Last Englishman: National Belonging and the Outbreak Narrative in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man” (Teaching English Literature 25.2, 2021). She is also a contributor to Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform (Liverpool UP, 2019). Her book project, Medical Liberty and Alternative Health Practices in Nineteenth-Century Britain, uncovers the historical emergence of the concept of medical liberty by examining cultural representations of alternative health practices in nineteenth-century Britain, such as anti-vaccination, hydropathy, and vegetarianism. She is a recipient of the 2020 Curran Fellowship from the Research Society of Victorian Periodicals.