International Health Humanities Network Membership

Jessica is a full-time instructor in the Galileo Learning Community for students in the health sciences at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY. She teaches English 101 and interdisciplinary courses to students majoring in nursing, exercise science, respiratory therapy, pre-med, etc. She holds a Bachelor's degree in English with a theater minor from Bellarmine University, and a Master's degree of Fine Arts in Writing from Spalding University. She is currently in her third-year of a PhD in Humanities, specializing in medical humanities, and she is working on a dissertation about breast cancer narratives (mammographies) and the ways in which experiences of breast cancer are influenced by pinkwashing and other cultural discourse about the disease. She is also interested in the history of medicine in Europe, the history of anatomy and morbid anatomy, and gender and the body in fairy tales. In her spare time she reads, brews beer, cooks, and watches a lot of trashy TV.