International Health Humanities Network Membership

 Bushra Juhi Jani is a university lecturer in contemporary English literature and she has recently started teaching medical English in the Medical College/Al-Nahrain University in Baghdad, Iraq. She wants to introduce medical humanities to Iraqi medical schools. She did her BA and MA degrees in English literature at Mustansiriyah University. She received her PhD degree in English Literature from the University of Sheffield in 2018. She wrote her thesis on violence in Margaret Drabble’s novels and four selected Iraqi novels. She published a number of research papers on Margaret Drabble and contemporary Iraqi novels. Her research interests lie in the area of English and Iraqi novels as well as Movie Studies. She is also interested in translating into English of Iraqi short stories and novels. She co-authored the translation of the first collection of short stories of the Iraqi novelist, Hadiya Hussein, which was self-published on Amazon. She also co-authored the translation of an anthology of Iraqi short stories, which comprised ten Iraqi storytellers. The latter was published by Lincom Academic Publisher in Germany 2019. She is planning to write a book with some other researchers on Iraq-War films.