Mona Baie

Dr. med. , M.A.

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 mona.baie@unifr.ch
 https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6451-1634

PhD Student SNSF
Medicine Section

Biography

  • 2012 to 2019: Medical degree, University of Heidelberg; Fellowship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
  • 2015 to 2020: MD Dissertation (Dr. med.), Institute of the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine, University of Heidelberg; title: “The healthiest way of being ill…”? Sprache und Krankheitsmetaphern in dem Nachrichtenmagazin DER SPIEGEL und autobiographischer Literatur über Krebserkrankungen 1973–2013 (Adviser: Prof. Dr. Maike Rotzoll)
  • 10/2020 to 10/2021: M.A., Health Humanities, University College London (UK); Graduate Fellowship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
  • 10/2021 to 02/2023: Affiliated lecturer at the Universities of Heidelberg, Fribourg, and Berne; freelance research associate at the Chair of Medical Humanities, Fribourg University
  • Since 02/2023: PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of Fribourg, doctoral coursework in General and Comparative Literature; PhD project: “The Hospital Narratives: Telling Clinical Spaces in German- and English-language Autopathographical Prose of the 20th and 21st Centuries”
  • Since 06/2023: Research associate, SNSF project “Medical Spaces in Literary Prose of the Long 20th Century” (Prof. Dr. Dr. Martina King; 2023-2027)
  • September 2025 to February 2026 Fellowship (Research Trainee) at the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (US) (SNSF Mobility Grant)

Research interests: Medical humanities and spatial studies, German- and English-language literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, history of medicine and the hospital 19th-21st century, disability studies, illness metaphors, medical didactics

April to September 2026: Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for the Humanities and Health, King’s College London, UK (mentor: Professor Neil Vickers)

Research and publications