Contributors
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Lisa Diedrich is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. Her research and teaching interests are in critical medical studies, disability studies, feminist science studies, and graphic medicine. She is the author of Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
Mary Fairclough is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature and Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, UK. She is the author of The Romantic Crowd: Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840: Electrick Communication Every Where (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and several journal articles and essays which investigate the intersection of literature, science, and politics in the eighteenth century and Romantic period.
Lester D. Friedman, PhD, is Emeritus Professor and former chair of the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Prior to his time at HWS, he taught health humanities and bioethics at Upstate Medical Center (Syracuse) and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University (Chicago). He is the author, co-author, and editor of over 20 books and numerous articles, including books on film genres, American cinema of the 1970s, American Jewish cinema, British film of the 1980s, health and humanities, Steven Spielberg, and Clint Eastwood. His latest project is a book on sports and American culture.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is a disability justice and culture thought leader, bioethicist, teacher, and humanities scholar. Her 2016 editorial, “Becoming Disabled,” was the inaugural article in the ongoing weekly series in the New York Times about disability by people living with disabilities. She is a professor of English and bioethics at Emory University, where she teaches disability studies, bioethics, American literature and culture, and feminist theory. She is the author of Staring: How We Look and several other books. Her current project is Embracing Our Humanity: A Bioethics of Disability and Health.
Jeffrey Allan Johnson obtained a PhD in Modern European History from Princeton University. His dissertation became The Kaiser’s Chemists: Science and Modernization in Imperial Germany (University of North Carolina Press, 1990), and he has published on various aspects of the history of chemistry and chemical technology, including chemical warfare. He taught principally at the Department of History, Villanova University, until his retirement in 2017. He is currently a non-resident guest scholar at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science (Berlin), specializing in the history of biochemistry and the technologies of artificial life.
Manali Karmakar is a doctoral candidate in English at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, where she specializes in the area of literature and medicine, and posthumanism. Her PhD thesis entitled “Bioengineering, Embodied Subjectivity, and Biomedical Trash: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Kishwar Desai’s Origins of Love,” explores the bioethical crises through the lenses of literature. Her works have appeared in Journal of Medical Humanities, Asian Journal of English Studies, and Open Inquiry Archive.
Allison B. Kavey is Associate Professor of early modern history and history of science at CUNY John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. With Les Friedman, she recently co-authored Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives (Rutgers University Press, 2016). She is also the author or editor of several other books in her area of specialization, including Books of Secrets: Natural Philosophy in England, 1550–1600 (University of Illinois Press, 2007). She is currently working on a book about Agrippa von Nettesheim›s magical cosmology.
Avishek Parui is Assistant Professor in English at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. His research interests include masculinity studies, memory studies, literature and medicine, and posthumanism. His work has appeared in Katherine Mansfield Studies, Peer English, Janus Head, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, and The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (Liverpool University Press, 2018), among other places. He has a book titled Postmodern Literatures from Orient Blackswan.
Fran Pheasant-Kelly is MA Film and Screen Course Leader and Reader in Screen Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Her research centers on American...
