International Health Humanities Network Membership

My research interests are wide-ranging and include comparative and world literature, medical humanities and twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American and Iberian literature. My work in the Medical Humanities has made a major impact through the two events that I organised at the University of Kent in 2011: ‘The Art of Medicine in Iberian and Latin American Literature’ (co-organised with Dr William Rowlandson) and in 2012: ‘The Mexican Day of the Dead’. These events addressed a new approach in Iberian and Latin American literature and film concerning the relationship between art and healing.

My publication record in the medical humanities includes an article published in Medical Humanities on Literature and Disability in Borges and Beckett (2011), a chapter on Greek tragedy and healing included in the ‘Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities Series’ edited by Bleakley, Bates, and Goodman (2014), and an edited volume entitled: Latin American and Iberian Perspectives on Literature and Medicine (Routledge, 2015). Apart from the editorial work, my research contribution to this volume includes a 10,000 word introduction that offers a theorisation of the field, and a 9,000 word chapter on the Spanish physician and Nobel Laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Future work includes an article on ‘Cajal and Hypnotism’ co-written with Lesley Gray.