Advisor: Dr. Kay Edwards

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Education: BA in Psychology and History, University of South Carolina

Bio:

Jilli is a history MA student researching intellectual, cultural, and emotions history within the early-modern Iberian Peninsula. As a passionate student of both psychology and history, she enjoys marrying the two disciplines whenever she can in her research. Whether that be through interpreting the emotional/psychological effects of spiritual attacks in 16^th-century Castilian nunneries or reading contemporary physicians’ philosophies on the human psyche and soul.

Her bachelor’s thesis, “Melancholy in Early-Modern Spain,” analyzed understandings of the disease then-known as melancholia through three lenses: the spiritual, the medical, and the allegorical. Through these viewpoints she explored how contemporaries understood the delicate balances and limitations between melancholy and madness.