Contributors
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Kelly L. Bezio is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Oberlin College. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013. Her current book project, titled Communicable Disease in the American Literary Imagination, studies how various authors (such as Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Harriet Beecher Stowe) used communicable disease to portray community formation. In addition to health humanities, her research interests include genre, narrative, and mythology; nationhood studies; the history of chemistry; and biopolitics.
Noelle Gallagher is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century British Literature at the University of Manchester. She is currently working on a book about venereal disease in the eighteenth-century British imagination.
Rebecca Garden, a Columbia University literature PhD, is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at Upstate Medical University, where she teaches health humanities, disability studies, and bioethics to medical, nursing, and allied health professions students. She has published on illness, disability, narrative, and health care in journals such as New Literary History, Journal for General Internal Medicine, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Journal of Clinical Ethics.
Jens Lohfert Jørgensen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. He has published articles on nineteenth-century literature and medicine in Nordic and international journals and is the manager of Nordic Network for Studies in Narrativity and Medicine. His first book, Signs of Disease, on the Danish author Jens Peter Jacobsen and the history of tuberculosis, is forthcoming in 2013 from the University Press of Southern Denmark.
Rick H. Lee is Associate Director of the Tyler Clementi Center and Coordinator of Asian American Studies Programming at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He earned his PhD in English from Rutgers. He regularly teaches courses on AIDS literature and film, gay and lesbian literature, and Asian American cultural studies. His essay in this issue derives from his book project, The Unfinished History of AIDS: Reading and Remembering the Epidemic in Queer Culture, which examines cultural literacy and generational transmission in the aftermath of AIDS.
Thomas Lawrence Long, Associate Professor-in-Residence in the University of Connecticut’s School of Nursing, is the author of AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic (SUNY Press, 2005) and co-editor of The Meaning Management Challenge: Making Sense of Health, Illness, and Disease (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2011). [End Page 174]
Woods Nash is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he also serves on the Ethics Committee and contributes to the Narrative Medicine rotation at UT Medical Center. His essays on Walker Percy have appeared in A Political Companion to Walker Percy (University Press of Kentucky, 2013) and the journal Perspectives on Political Science. His essays on Cormac McCarthy are forthcoming in both Appalachian Journal and Cormac McCarthy Journal. He also has poems and other work forthcoming in JAMA, Academic Medicine, Journal of Progressive Human Services, and Journal of Medical Humanities. [End Page 175]
