Lance Wahlert is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in English literature and an M.A. in Humanities specializing in Irish poetry and medical history.  He also earned a First Class Honors M.Sc. in History of Science and Medicine from The Imperial College of Medicine (London), as well as the dissertation prize for his thesis on the cultural history of homosexuality in German, British, and North American cinemas.  He has also held residential fellowships in medieval Nordic literature at the University of Oslo, Irish literature at Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast, English literature at King’s College London, the history of medicine at The Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine (London), and media studies at the British Film Institute.  Lance has taught at Penn since 2002 on subjects including the history of medicine, queer cinema, madness in literature, the literature of London, Irish literature, and classical mythology.  In 2003, he earned the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students for his work in the Classics Department.  In 2008, he won the same award for his work as a faculty member in the departments of English, Cinema Studies, and the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.  In 2005-2006, Lance served as graduate co-director of The Penn English Program in London.  Currently, he holds a scholastic residency at Gregory College House as a graduate fellow and as Director of its Film Culture Program.  As a doctoral candidate in the Department of English, he has written a dissertation titled The Clinical Gays, about queer cinema as a reappraisal of medical history on same-sex desire.  Lance’s wider interests include the impact of cinematic genres on cultural histories, the authority of medical iconography in art and media, and the relationship between literary narratives and visual forms of storytelling. Currently, he is also working on a book titled Medicine and the Movies, which appraises the historiographical value of motion pictures for medical historians, identifying the most significant artists, films, innovations, and afflictions in the cinematic canon.