Contributors
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Catherine Belling is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Her work focuses on narrative, anxiety, and medical knowledge, and is published in Narrative, the Journal of Medical Humanities, the Journal of Clinical Ethics, and Academic Medicine, as well as in several edited collections. She has held leadership positions in the Modern Language Association (Executive Committee for the Division on Literature and Science) and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (Program Committee Co-chair and Board of Directors).
Joshua Doležal is Assistant Professor of English at Central College, in Iowa, where he also directs the interdisciplinary first-year seminar. His scholarship has appeared most recently in Cather Studies, Medical Humanities, and Ethics and the Environment.
Bradley Lewis is Associate Professor at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study with affiliated appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. He has dual training in humanities and psychiatry, and he writes and teaches at the interface of medicine, humanities, and cultural studies. Lewis is the author of Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: Birth of Postpsychiatry (University of Michigan Press, 2006).
Richard E. Miller is Executive Director of the Plangere Writing Center at Rutgers University. He is the author of As If Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education (Cornell University Press, 1998) and, more recently, of Writing at the End of the World (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005). His collaborative work with Dr. Paul Hammond may be seen at http://www.youtube.com/user/newhumanities.
Terri Beth Miller is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she specializes in literary modernism, disability and postcolonial studies, and rhetoric and composition. Currently, she is writing her dissertation on representations of human "monstrosity" in the British novel from 1850 to 1930. Her analysis of medico-social representations of maternal/fetal congenital defect, "Stalking Grendel's Mother: Biomedicine and the Disciplining of the Deviant Body," will appear in the forthcoming anthology, Disability and Mothering, edited by Jen Cellio and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson.
Kelly McGuire is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Trent University, Canada. She is currently at work on a book project that examines the emergence of public health discourse in fictionalized plague narratives of the eighteenth century. [End Page 183]
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 recent work includes Illness in the Academy (Purdue University Press, 2007), The Patient (co-edited with Harold Schweizer, Bucknell University Press, 2010), and The Patient: Global Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, UK, 2010).
Linda Raphael teaches in the Department of English at George Washington University (GWU) and is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the George Washington University School of Medicine where she founded and is now Director of the Program in Medical Humanities. She is author of Narrative Skepticism: Moral Agency and Representations of Consciousness in Fiction (Associated University Presses, 2001) and co-editor of When Night Fell: An Anthology of Holocaust Short Stories (Rutgers University Press, 1999). She has published articles and essays on the fiction of Henry James, Charles Dickens, and the representation of cultural and historical events in fiction. Her research and writing are increasingly directed toward narrative and medicine, including "how doctors listen to patients" and "what patients want in a physician."
Johanna Shapiro is Professor of Family Medicine and Director of the Program in Medical Humanities & Arts, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine. As a psychologist and medical educator, Shapiro has focused her research and scholarship on various aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, including physician interactions with "difficult," stigmatized, and culturally diverse patient populations. She recently published an analysis of medical student poetry, The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry (Radcliffe Medical Press, 2009). She is feature editor of the Family Medicine column, "Literature and the Arts in Medical Education," poetry editor for Families, Systems, & Health, and poetry co-editor for the e-magazine Pulse. [End Page 184]
