Envisioning Embodiment in the Health Humanities / Sustainable Development Goals Series (PDF)

Jodi Cressman is Professor of English at Dominican University, USA, where she teaches courses in college writing, American literature, graphic narrative, literary theory, creative writing, and the health humanities. Her research focuses on embodiment, witnessing, and the ethics of reading illness narratives, and she is starting a new project about disaster tourism and literary culture. Her recent scholarship has been published in The Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics as well as Graphic Perspectives on Health and Embodiment (2021), which she co-edited with Lisa DeTora.





Lisa DeTora is Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric and the Director of STEM Writing at Hofstra University, USA. She also serves as guest faculty in medical humanities for the Hofstra Northwell Medical School. Her research focuses on biomedical discourses, such as the function of documentation in shaping bodies of medical knowledge, interests that bridge into her work on trauma and embodiment in popular culture. Lisa's prior professional experience includes roles in clinical development, scientific and medical affairs. Her work in medical and health humanities includes journal articles on young adult literature and trauma, Bodies in Transition in the Health Humanities: Representations of Corporeality (2020), coedited with Stephanie Hilger, and more.

Jeannie Ludlow is Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Eastern Illinois University, USA, where she also teaches courses for the Health Humanities minor and the Latin American Studies minor. Her scholarship and teaching are informed by more than a decade of experience as an abortion care worker. Her research is located in the conceptual gaps between representations of health and medical experiences and politicized discourses of those experiences. Her recent health humanities work has appeared in Graphic Perspectives on Health and Embodiment (2021); Representing Abortion (2020);