Literature & Pathology
Conference
University of California, Davis
February 29 - March 2, 2008
 
 
 

Conference News

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The conference provides a venue for productive interdisciplinary discussions of the representations and narrations of pathology and literature.  It brings together perspectives of scholars from both the sciences and the humanities.  

Panel Topics

   

                               Authors and Illness

                               Language and Diagnosis

                               Death

                               Pathology and Gender in the 19th C.                                     Sex and Taboo       
                               Violence, Pathology and the State                                         Narrative, Form and Healing
Participants
   

 Hosts:  

    UC Davis Department of English Faculty & Graduate Students   

     UCD School of Medicine Faculty and Students

Guest Speakers:  

Plenary Address:

   Athena Vrettos, Ph.D. Associate  Professor of English     Case Western Reserve University

    Author of Somatic Fictions: Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture (Stanford UP, 1995)

   

Literature and Medicine Pedagogy Workshop:

   Anne Stiles, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor of English,   

    Washington State University, Pullman

   

   Lisa DeTora, Ph.D.: Assistant Director of the College  

    Writing Program, Lafayette College

Poetry Reading:

    Jennifer Lagier Fellguth http://www.jlagier.net/

Organizers:
   Dr. Faith Fitzgerald
    Professor, Internal Medicine, UCDMC
    Director, Program in Bioethics, UCDMC
 
    Jessica Howell, Ph.D (English, UCD)
    Colleen Pauza (Ph.D. Candidate, English, UCD)
    Dylan Kahn (Medical Student, UCD)
    Stuart Gallant (Medical Student, UCD)              
        

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