Contributors
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Carol Acton is Associate Professor of English at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo. Her book Grief in Wartime: Private Pain, Public Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) includes discussion of medical personnel from World War One and the Vietnam War. She has also published articles and book chapters on gender and war in the 20th century.
Carol Berkenkotter is a professor in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She conducts research on the rhetoric of medicine and psychiatry and is the author of Patient Tales: Case Histories and the Uses of Narrative in Psychiatry (University of South Carolina Press, 2008), a narrative study of case histories in psychiatry in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her current research interests include rhetorical historiography, and the representations of insanity and the psychiatric patient in the 19th century across the genres of asylum case histories, patient narratives, and the novels that treat wrongful confinement.
Felicia Cohn is Bioethics Director for Kaiser Permanente, Orange County, and a Clinical Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. She is president-elect of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and co-editor of The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Her Ph.D. is in Religious Ethics, and her work has focused on clinical ethics and medical education.
Karen L. Drummond received her Ph.D. in anthropology in 2007 from the University of California, Irvine. She is Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Services Research within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Drummond is also Research Health Scientist at the VA HSR &D Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research (CeMHOR) in the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. Her current research centers upon the integration of mental health and substance use treatment within primary care, the transformation to the patient-centered medical home model, and provider decision making.
Kimberly K. Emmons is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at Case Western Reserve University, where she specializes in medical rhetoric, gender and language, and writing theory and pedagogy. Her research focuses on the rhetorical construction of mental health and illness, particularly depression, and she has recently been investigating the role of genres and narratives in shaping experiences of the illness. She is the author of Black Dogs and Blue Words: Depression and Gender in the Age of Self-Care (Rutgers University Press, 2010). [End Page 214]
Arthur Frank is Professor of sociology at the University of Calgary. His most recent book is Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology (University of Chicago Press, 2010). He is a contributing editor of Literature & Medicine.
Sylvie Gambaudo is Lecturer at Durham University. She teaches continental philosophy, literature, and gender theory in the department of Philosophy. She is also Deputy Director of the research Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities. Her current research focuses on narratives of depression, the theories of Julia Kristeva, and the work of Janet Frame. She is the author of Kristeva, Psychoanalysis and Culture (Ashgate, 2007).
Cristina Hanganu-Bresch is Assistant Professor of Writing at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Her current research focuses on the visual rhetoric of psychiatry and psychopharmaceutical advertising, the construction of depression through the genre of the mood memoir, and the history of psychiatry.
Therese (Tess) Jones is Director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She is the editor of the Journal of Medical Humanities.
Elizabeth Klaver is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She has published Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture (State University of New York Press, 2005) and Performing Television: Contemporary Drama and the Media Culture (Popular Press, 2000). She has edited The Body in Medical Culture (State University of New York Press, 2009) and Images of the Corpse from the Renaissance to Cyberspace (Popular Press, 2004).
Susan L. Miller teaches Poetry and Expository Writing at Rutgers University. Her poetry has appeared in Iowa Review, Commonweal, Meridian...
