International Health Humanities Network Membership

Elizabeth J. Donaldson is Associate Professor of English at New York Institute of Technology, where she teaches courses in American literature and bioethics, and where she created and administers a Medical Humanities undergraduate minor program.  She has published essays on mental illness in film, antipsychiatry in Lauren Slater’s memoirs, and LSD in schizophrenia research, among other subjects. Her essay, “The Corpus of the Madwoman: Toward a Feminist Disability Studies Theory of Embodiment and Mental Illness,” has been anthologized several times. She has co-edited the special issue “Disability and Emotion” of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (2011) with Catherine Prendergast, and she has co-edited The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Disability, Discourse (Ohio State University Press, 2012) with David Bolt and Julia Miele Rodas.  She is also co-editor of the new book series “Literary Disability Studies” from Palgrave Macmillan.