Contributors
- Contributors
Ayelet Ben-Yishai is Lecturer of English at the University of Haifa. Her book, Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction was published by the Oxford University Press in 2013.
Amy Boesky is Professor of English at Boston College. In addition to teaching literature and creative nonfiction, she is Director of a minor in Medical Humanities. She is author of What We Have (2010), a memoir about her family’s experience with the BRCA1 mutation, and editor of The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity (2013). She is currently at work on a study of the representation of genetic difference from the early modern period to the present.
Mary K. Deshazer is Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Wake Forest University, where she teaches illness narratives, transnational feminisms, and women’s literature. She is the author of Mammographies: The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives (2013), Fractured Borders: Reading Women’s Cancer Literature (2005), A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States (1994), and Inspiring Women: Reimagining the Muse (1987). In 2001 she edited The Longman Anthology of Women’s Literature. Her work in progress examines the ethical imperatives and aesthetic dimensions of contemporary cancer narratives.
Marta Fernández-Morales is Associate Professor of United States literature and culture at the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain. Her research focuses on gender issues in contemporary United States theater, film, and television. She is the author of four books and the editor or coeditor of seven scholarly volumes, and her work has been published in specialized journals like English Studies, Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, American Drama, Analele, Atenea, Asparkía, and Women’s Studies, among others. She has participated in national and international research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, the Women’s Institute, and the European Union. She currently leads the research unit “Representation, Ideology, and Reception in Audiovisual Culture” (http://rirca.blogspot.com.es).
Shelly A. Gregory is an independent scholar and is currently working on her book manuscript, “Write of Passage: Understanding Disability [End Page 269] and Illness Narratives Through the Bodies of Nancy Mairs, Muriel Rukeyser, and Audre Lorde.”
Anita Helle is Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in the Oregon State University Medical Humanities Program, where she teaches courses on writing, literature, and medicine. Currently, she serves as Director of the School of Writing, Literature, and Film. Recent publications include The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath (2008), as well as an essay in the special issue of Literature and Medicine on “Narrative Medicine” (2011) and “Women’s Elegies” in the Oxford Book of the Elegy (2010).
Diane Price Herndl is Chair and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Professor of English at the University of South Florida. Her most recent research focuses on the cultural discourses of breast cancer and its intersections with disability theory. She is the author of Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840–1940 (1993), as well as essays on feminist theory, medical humanities, disability studies, and American fiction; she has also coedited several volumes of feminist theory, including Feminisms Redux: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism (2009).
Martha Stoddard Holmes is Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University, San Marcos, where she teaches body studies, creative writing, British literature, and film. Author of Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (2004) and coeditor of The Teacher’s Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy (2003), she has published extensively on the cultural history of the body from the Victorian era to the present, including Victorian representations of disability and the public culture of cancer. She is currently working on a graphic narrative (comic) about ovarian cancer. Stoddard Holmes is Associate Editor of Literature and Medicine, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Journal of Medical Humanities, and Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.
Eva C. Karpinski is Associate Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto. Her current research interests include women’s narratives of illness and health, visual representations...
