Contributors
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Monika Class is Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz and Research Associate of King’s College London’s Center for the Humanities and Health. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Oxford. Her research and teaching focuses on the history of literature, medicine and philosophy from an intercultural perspective. She published Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, 1796–1817 in 2012 and currently works on a second monograph about the relation of medical case narratives and British novels during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Kimberly K. Emmons is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at Case Western Reserve University, where she researches and teaches in the fields of medical rhetoric and writing studies. She is the author of Black Dogs and Blue Words: Depression and Gender in the Age of Self-Care (Rutgers University Press, 2010) and of articles and chapters in the fields of rhetoric and composition, faculty development, and medical humanities.
Arthur W. Frank is professor emeritus at the University of Calgary. The second edition of his book The Wounded Storyteller appeared in 2013. His 2014 activities include being Resident Fellow in Canadian Studies at UCLA and delivering the C. L. Oakley Lecture at the University of Leeds.
Alice Hall is Lecturer in Contemporary and Global Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has taught at Université Paris-Diderot, La Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Cambridge. She is the author of Disability and Modern Fiction: Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature (2012) and of articles on autobiographical fiction, memory, and medical humanities.
Brian Hurwitz is Professor of Medicine and the Arts at King’s College London where he directs the Centre for the Humanities and Health, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust. The Centre is a multidisciplinary research unit offering training at masters, PhD, MD and postdoctoral levels (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/chh/index.aspx). He has worked as a family doctor in central London for 30 years, and his research interests include narrative studies in relation to medical practice, ethics, law and the logic and literary shape of clinical case reports. Prior to his current position he was Professor of Primary Health at Imperial College London.
Ludmilla Jordanova is Professor of History and Visual Culture at Durham University, where she is also a Co-director of the Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures. Her most recent book is The Look of the Past: Visual and [End Page 234] Material Evidence in Historical Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2012). She is currently working on the relationships between portraiture, well being, identity and medicine.
Meegan Kennedy is Associate Professor of English and Core Faculty in History and Philosophy of Science at Florida State University. Her book, Revising the Clinic: Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel (2010), examines physicians’ and novelists’ shared strategies for observing and reporting what they saw. Her current project is called “Beautiful Mechanism: The Eye, the Microscope, and the Romance of Victorian Science”: this technology requires Victorians to reconcile the wonders of microscopic vision with an increasing skepticism about human perception.
Nicolas Pethes is Professor of German at the University of Cologne, where he also received his PhD in 1998. In 2005, he was appointed Professor of European Literature and Media History at Fernuniversität Hagen; from 2009 to 2014 he was Professor of German at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His main areas of research include the theory of cultural memory, literature and science studies, the cultural history of human experimentation, and the theory of the case history. His most recent publication is a volume on Fall—Fallstudie—Fallgeschichte. Theorie und Geschichte einer Wissensform, that he co-edited with Susanne Düwell at Campus (Frankfurt/New York) in 2014.
Suzanne Poirier is Professor Emerita of Literature and Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a past editor of Literature and Medicine. Some of...
