Eileen Huang

Writer

Eileen Huang studies English at Yale University. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Adroit Journal, and on NowThis News.

Real Bodies: On Jenny Zhang's My Baby First Birthday

Around this time last year, there was a special exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art on the work of William Hunter, a 19th century Scottish anatomist. An influential obstetrician, Hunter was most notable for authoring The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures, a text that featured hundreds of illustrations of fetuses in utero — the first detailed, meticulous images of the pregnant human body.