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TEACHING AND SERVICE

Faculty Member
 
2006 School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Faculty member, Summer session.  Class on "Artists and Mental Illness" in Department of Critical and Visual Studies, Terri Kapsalis, Chair.  [ VIEW SYLLABUS ]
2004, 2003, 2001, 2000 Northwestern University Medical School.  Classes on "Alternative Anatomy" and "Inhabiting Authority" through making medical books in department of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Kathryn Montgomery, Chair.
2001 University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.  Special topics seminar on "Alternative Anatomy" in Medical Education Department.  Invited by Suzanne Poirier.

Guest Workshop Leader

2002 Pennsylvania State College of Medicine.  National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute led by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins and Susan Squier.
2001 Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago.  Clinical Pastoral Care Residency Program, workshop leader. Invited by Joann O’Reilly.

Visiting Artist

2006,
2005
School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
2000 University of Chicago.  Visiting Artist, undergraduate literature and medicine class taught by John Lantos.
2000 College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts.  Visiting Artist, artists’ books, class of Susan Schmidt.
2000 Wellesley College.  Visiting Artist, introduction to reproductive issues, class of Adrienne Asch.

Service

2001 New York Academy of Medicine.  Reader, Helfand Fellowships in the Humanities.


PUBLICATIONS

Looking in the Mirror:  Images of Abnormally Developed Infants,” Journal of Medical Humanities. Features drawings. Fall, 2005.  (Features drawings)
“Scenes from the Psychiatric Hospital,” in Women, Health and Nation: the U.S. and Canada in the Post-War Years. Ed. Georgina Feldberg et al., McGill-Queens University Press, 2003. (Cover art as well)
“Choosing My Own Doctor,” Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. (http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/hummed/yjhm/archives/astarr.htm)  Ed. Howard Spiro. October, 2001.  (Solicited article)
“leopardpeople/burning child,” introductory essay in Nils D. Dicaz, Leopardpeople: eine Installation in der Camp Gallery, Mt. San Angelo, Virginia, USA. Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2000.
“A Visual Artist and the Medical Museum,” The Prescription: Newsletter of the Medical Museums Association, August, 2000.
“Speaking Women’s Bodies: A Conversation,” Literature and Medicine, 17, no. 2, fall 1998. Co-authored with Susan Squier.


LECTURES

The Very Pictures of Health: Self-Portraits During Illnesses.  Bucknell University, October, 2006.
Cannibal Appetites.  State University of New York at Cortland, 2004.
Reflections of a Mad Artist.  D’Arcy Art Museum of the Loyola University of Chicago, and Hektoen Institute for Medical Research, 2004.
Love in a Small Place: Straight Girl and Gay Boy in and out of the Closet. Kenyon College, 2002.
Medicine's Clinical Representations of Abnormal Human Bodies. Society for Literature and Science, Buffalo, 2001.
Doctors and Patients in Visual Relation. Yale University School of Medicine, 2001.
Medical Normality or Social Normality? Images of Human Infants and Fetuses with Visible Physical Abnormalities.” Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2001.
The Body Inside Me. Barnard College, 2001.
The Artist, Her Doctor, and Relational Portraits. National Portrait Gallery, London. (Cosponsored by the British Society for the History of Science; organized by Ludmilla Jordanova) 2000.
Imagining Bodies. Northwestern University Medical School, 2000.
Uterine Fantasies: Whither the Womb? University of Texas at Arlington, 2000.
Artists and Mental Illness: Going Away to the Hospital, Going Away to the Artists’ Colony. James Campbell Distinguished Lecture, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago; Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, 2000.
“I Tell You No Lies: Narration from Bipolar Illness.” Davis Lecture in Medical Ethics. University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine; 7th International Congress on the History of Medicine, Galveston, Texas; Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Post-Doctoral Program, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, 2000.
Drawings of Reality: Pictorial Narrative of In-Patient Stays at a Psychiatric Hospital. York University, Canada; Society for Disability Studies, Washington, D.C.; Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, 1999.
Book Artists’ Round Table, organized by the Center for Book Arts, New York, at Connecticut College, 1999.
Ex Utero, Society on Literature and Science, Gainesville, Florida, 1999.
The Body: Sensation, Fantasy, and Medical Knowledge, Northwestern University Medical School, 1999.
Under My Skin: Curriculum Vitae, Story, and the Book,” Pennsylvania State University, 1997.


GRANTS AND AWARDS
 
Reynolds Associates Fellowship, Historical Collections of the Lister Hill Library, University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical School,  2001.
Resident Research Grant, Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1999.
Purchase prize awarded by Jan Howard, Eleventh Annual National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, 1999.
Professional Development Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council, 1998.
Purchase prize awarded by Janet Bishop, 1996 Stockton (CA) National Print and Drawing Exhibition.
The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois. Artist’s residencies, 1995, 1997, 1998 (twice), 2001, 2006.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia. Artist’s residencies, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001.

 


 
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