Ariel Little is a PhD student of English Literature at the University of British Columbia. She specializes in literary constructions of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century girlhood with a focus on girls’ health and wellness. Her research addresses how fiction and health advice worked in concert to establish a narrative of girls’ health. Addressing the works of Asian American, Indigenous, and African American authors alongside Anglo-European works, her project aims to address how health discourse served as an avenue to articulate culturally distinct perspectives on girlhood, thereby enabling resistance against hegemonic constructions. Her work is supported by a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.