Priscilla Wald, the R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English at Duke University, joined Rice University's Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion and Associate Dean of the Faculty and Graduate Studies in the School of Humanities, on Feb. 15, 2022, for the second of three webinars in advance of Archives of the Impossible, a scholarly conference and exhibition that takes place March 3–6, 2022 at Rice University.

At Duke University, Priscilla Wald co-edits "American Literature" with Matthew Taylor. She is the author of "Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative" (Duke, 2008) and "Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form" (Duke, 1995). Wald is currently working on a monograph entitled "Human Being After Genocide", which considers the “mythistory” of humanity that emerged from efforts to articulate an “underlying spirit of unity” that could sacralize “the human” in the wake of two world wars and a proliferation of scientific and technological developments that challenged conventional notions of life.

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