Contributors
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Sarah Brophy is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She is the author of Witnessing AIDS: Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning (University of Toronto Press, 2004); writers discussed in this study include Derek Jarman, Amy Hoffman, Eric Michaels, and Jamaica Kincaid. With the support of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant, she is writing a book on sexuality and the reproductive body in postwar and contemporary British fiction, film, and autobiography. She is also editing a collection of essays on embodied politics in visual autobiography in collaboration with Janice Hladki.
Hillary Chute is a Junior Fellow in literature at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She has essays published or forthcoming in American Periodicals, Modern Fiction Studies (for which she was also co-editor of a special issue on Graphic Narrative), PMLA, Postmodern Culture, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. She is working with Art Spiegelman on the book project MetaMaus (Pantheon, 2009) and writing a study of women cartoonists. She is also a consulting editor for The Poetry Foundation’s series “The Poem as Comic Strip.”
Sayantani DasGupta, MD, MPH, is Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Core Faculty Member in the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She also teaches courses on illness narratives and narrative genetics at Sarah Lawrence College, and is the co-author of The Demon Slayers and Other Stories: Bengali Folktales, author of a memoir of her time in Johns Hopkins medical school, Her Own Medicine: A Woman’s Journey from Student to Doctor, and co-editor of a recent volume of women’s illness narratives Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies.
Arthur W. Frank is professor of sociology at the University of Calgary. He is the author of At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness (1991, new edition 2002), The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics (1995), and The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live (2004).
Richard Gooding is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches eighteenth-century literature, children’s literature, and composition. He has published work on Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and The CEA Critic.
Anne Hudson Jones is the Hobby Family Professor in the Medical Humanities and Graduate Program Director for the Institute for the Medical Humanities of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, Texas. A founding editor of Literature and Medicine, she has taught and published in the field for thirty years. She is currently preparing the proceedings from [End Page 443] Graduate Education in Medical Humanities: Models and Methods, a conference held in March 2007 in Galveston to celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of UTMB’s Institute for the Medical Humanities and the twentieth anniversary of its medical humanities graduate program, the nation’s first.
Dana Medoro is an associate professor of American Literature at the University of Manitoba and author of The Bleeding of America (Greenwood Press, 2002). She is currently working on a book-length project on Nathaniel Hawthorne and nineteenth-century medicine.
Kimberly R. Myers is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Penn State College of Medicine and in the Department of English at Penn State University. Her book, Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics, appeared in 2007 from Purdue University Press.
Suzanne Poirier is Professor Emerita of Literature and Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she taught students in all fields of the health professions for twenty-five years. Her publications range from women’s health to history of medicine, aging to AIDS. Her latest book, tentatively titled Doctors in the Making: Memoirs of Medical Education, is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press. She is currently exploring avenues for goat farming in Arizona.
Jane Robinett teaches rhetoric and comparative literature at San Diego State University. Her work on technology and literature has been published in journals in Spain, Costa Rica, and the U.S., and in her book, This Rough Magic: Technology in Latin American Fiction. She began working on literature and medicine...
