Contributors
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Saljooq M. Asif is a Lecturer in the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. His interests include literary, visual, and cultural depictions of health and the incorporation of these narratives in the pedagogy of healthcare providers. His work has appeared in U.S. Studies Online, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Journal of Medical Humanities, and Innovations in Global Health Professions Education. Asif holds a Master of Science in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University.
Robert Bennett is Professor of English at Montana State University. He is the author of Pill (Bloomsbury, 2019), a brief cultural history of how psychotropic medications have been represented in a wide range of different media.
Kathryn Cai will be receiving her PhD in English from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019. Her research focuses on broadening the spectrum of affects associated with care labor in transpacific circuits of migration and capital through attending to bodily states and body-environment interactions in Asian American cultural productions. She will be a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Humanities at Wake Forest University beginning in fall 2019.
Madeleine Disner is an Associate Instructor for Columbia University's Online Certification in Narrative Medicine as well as an editorial assistant to Drucilla Cornell, a prolific feminist ethicist. She is certified in mediation and draws on this training along with her Master of Science in Narrative Medicine to address how literature and philosophy can help improve personal experience and interpersonal relations.
Madaline Harrison. MD, is a neurologist specializing in the evaluation and treatment of movement disorders. She received her medical training at the University of Miami School of Medicine and completed a Neurology Residency and Movement Disorders Fellowship at the University of Virginia. She sees patients with Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, dystonia, tremor, Tourette's syndrome, and other conditions and directs the Movement Disorders Division in the Department of Neurology at the University of Virginia. In addition to her clinical activities, Dr. Harrison is active in medical education, with a particular interest in narrative medicine and other arts-based educational techniques.
Emily James is Associate Professor of English at University of St. Thomas, where she teaches twentieth-century literature, visual culture, and the medical humanities. She is currently the director of the university's Center for Women. Her research focuses on modernism, creative process, wordmaking, and scenes of reading and writing. Her work has been published in Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, Modernist Cultures, and The Space Between; and is forthcoming in Modernism/modernity.
Robin Alex McDonald is an Art History instructor at Nipissing University and a SSHRC-funded PhD Candidate in the Cultural Studies Department at Queen's University. As a hybrid scholar-writer-curator, Robin's artistic and academic interests span modern and contemporary art, visual culture studies, queer theory, trans theory, affect and emotion, and madness and disability studies. Robin's published work can be found in TheatreForum, Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, n.paradoxa, nomorepotlucks, Spiffy Moves, Guts Canadian Feminist Magazine (with Elly Clarke, Amanda Turner-Pohan, and Michelle Ty), the Graduate Journal for Social Sciences (with Dan Vena), and the edited anthology Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal (with Dan Vena).
Don James McLaughlin is an assistant professor of English at the University of Tulsa specializing in nineteenth-century and early American literature. He is the 2018–2019 Hench Post-dissertation Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. He earned his PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania in July 2017. He is writing a book on the history of phobia as a medical diagnosis, political metaphor, and aesthetic sensibility. His writing has appeared in American Literature, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life.
Folarin Odusola is a graduate of the Master of Science Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. He is a dentist by profession and has a clinical practice. He also teaches and conducts research at Columbia University on the intersection of dental medicine and mental health. He has published articles in Journal of Dental Research and Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
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