Contributors
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Joanne Trautmann Banks has spent thirty years in the field of literature and medicine as teacher, writer, and editor. In the past eight years, she has added a clinical element as patient visitor. Her published work includes The Letters of Virginia Woolf.
Rebecca Barnhouse is Associate Professor of English at Youngstown State University, where she teaches medieval literature and other courses. She has published books and articles about Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and the portrayal of the Middle Ages in contemporary literature for young readers. Her current project focuses on William Caxton's translation of a fourteenth-century French courtesy book for young women, The Book of the Knight of the Tower.
Michael Bérubé is the Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University. The author of Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child (Vintage, 1998), he has also published widely on disability, popular culture, American and African American literature, and the politics of higher education.
Bonnie Blackwell received her Ph.D. in English from Cornell in 1998, after which she took a position as Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University. Her research concerns are feminist readings of medical historiography in film and literature, and her articles on birth technology and the wet nursing industry appear in the journals Camera Obscura, Genders, Women's Studies, and ELH. This essay is drawn from her book manuscript, Strict Examinations: Medicine and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century British Literature.
Charles A. Corr is Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophical Studies, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is a longtime member and former chairperson of the International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement. In 1995, Dr. Corr was honored by Children's Hospice International through the establishment of the Charles A. Corr Award for Lifetime Achievement (Literature), and in 1996 he received the Association for Death Education and Counseling's Death Education Award. In addition to more than sixty articles and chapters, Dr. Corr's book-length publications include: Helping Children Cope with Death (2nd ed., Hemisphere, 1984), Childhood and Death (Hemisphere, 1984), Adolescence and Death (Springer, 1986), Handbook of Childhood Death and Bereavement (Springer, 1996), Handbook of Adolescent Death and Bereavement (Springer, 1996), and Death and Dying, Life and Living (3rd ed., Wadsworth, 2000). [End Page 175]
Anne Hunsaker Hawkins is Professor of Humanities at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. She is the author of Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography (Purdue University Press, 1993; 2nd ed., 1999) and A Small, Good Thing: Stories About Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them (Norton, 2000).
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre teaches courses in literature and medicine and in composition for pre-med students at Westmont College. She has written numerous articles on literature and medicine and serves on the boards of Literature and Medicine and the Online Database of Literature, Arts, and Medicine. Her recent books include Teaching Literature and Medicine (MLA, 2000), co-edited with Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, and In Quiet Light, a collection of her own poetry on Vermeer's paintings (Eerdmans, 2000). She has just completed a chapter for a volume on representations of medicine in film edited by Lester Friedman and forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2002.
Dale Minter received his B.F.A. from James Madison University and his M.F.A. in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. The images included in this issue are part of a series for which he won an Individual Artist Fellowship Merit Award from the Nebraska Council of the Arts in spring 2001. They are created on the computer using multiple images, many of which derive from his experience with his infant son's cancer and chemotherapy treatment, and play with the notion of a childhood disrupted by medical crisis. In addition to working as a photographer, he is a freelance graphic designer in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Deborah Minter is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in rhetoric and composition. Though most of her publications address issues of literacy education and curricular work in English studies (appearing in such journals as College English), she is at work on a book-length study...
