Yoonsuh Kim is a PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with research interests in medical humanities, environmental humanities, and turn-of-the-century American literature. She is working on her dissertation, Writing for Public Health: Medicine, Statistics, and Literature in the Progressive Era, where she explores how diverse literary genres helped represent, navigate, and mitigate public health crises at a formative time for modern public health policy in the United States.