Contributors
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Jill Gatlin serves on the Liberal Arts Faculty at New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in 2007 and is completing a manuscript on environmental justice in U.S. literature. Her paper, "Experience is all we have: Postpositivist Realist Ethics in Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place" appears in the collection, A Wilderness of Signs: Ethics, Beauty, and Environment after Postmodernism. She has also contributed to the Washington Center's Curriculum for the Bioregion initiative.
Jessica Howell teaches writing and Victorian literature in the Department of English at the University of California Davis (UCD), where she received her doctorate in 2007. She is currently completing a manuscript on climate and disease in Victorian travel narratives to Africa and the Caribbean. Her scholarly interests also include medical humanities and post-colonial theories and texts. She was two-time recipient of the UCD Humanities and Research Award, which she used to develop and run a conference titled "Literature and Pathology" (in 2008 and again in 2009). Her article on Jamaican Creole nurse Mary Seacole will appear in 2010 in Victorian Literature and Culture.
Summers Kalishman is an Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. She directs the office of Program Evaluation, Education, and Research and supports medical education scholarship. Her current work includes curriculum evaluation, faculty and professional development, assessment of reflective practices and workplace learning.
Yvette Koepke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and an adjunct in Women Studies and the Office of Medical Education in the School of Medicine at the University of North Dakota. She incorporates her background as a Medical Scholar, critical theorist, and early modernist into her scholarly work on the body and medical humanities.
Kathryn Montgomery is Professor of Medicine, Humanities and Bioethics and of Medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She is the author of Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 1991) and How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2006). A Hastings Center Fellow, she served as president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities in 2001-02.
Amber Musser is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program at New York University. Dr. Musser recently received her Ph.D. in the History of Science from Harvard. [End Page 272] Her dissertation, On the Subject of Masochism, examined masochism, psychoanalysis, queer affect, and theories of subjectivity. Currently she is researching queer attachments to objects and embodiments of multiple subjectivities.
Julie Reichert, an educator at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine Office of Undergraduate Medical Education, teaches narrative writing to medical students, residents, fellows, and faculty as a means to reflect on experience. She has created numerous writing workshops for health professionals and for people living with illness and is co-founder and director of the Taos Writing Retreat for Health Professionals. She is also a writer and filmmaker.
Brian Solan is an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine (UNMSOM). He received his medical degree from the University of New Mexico and completed his residency at the Michigan State University/St. Lawrence Hospital Family Medicine Residency. He is the director of the Preceptorship Programs at UNMSOM. His interests include preventive health and community-based education.
Susan Squier is Brill Professor of Women's Studies, English, and STS (Science, Technology, and Society) at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Squier serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the Medical Humanities and is Executive Board Member and past President of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. She was co-director, with Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in Medicine, Literature and Culture, at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, 2002. Her books include Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine; Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology; and Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City.
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