Mary M. Alcaro (she/her) is a Visiting Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College, where she teaches courses on medieval literature, focusing on premodern theories of sex and gender as well as literary representations of disease. Her research interests are at the intersection of literary analysis, the history of medicine, and the medical humanities. Mary received her PhD in English from Rutgers University, where her dissertation "Unspeakable But Not Unspoken: The Literary Language of Plague Trauma in Middle English Texts," considered the traumatic impact that the Black Death had upon vernacular English literature of the late fourteenth century. She is also involved in various public humanities outreach programs, including "Sherlock Mondays," a free web series hosted by the Rosenbach Museum and Library, which aims to make literary study more accessible to the general public. Mary lives in Philadelphia with her partner (a psychiatrist) and their cat.