International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Kent, UK. My research interests lie in illness narratives, disability studies and multiethnic American literature. I have recently completed a new monograph titled Illness as Many Narratives (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) that explores the aesthetic, ethical and cultural importance of contemporary representations of illness across different arts and media. Through case studies on photography, artists’ books, performance art, film, theatre, animation and online narratives, it demonstrates how bringing in diverse materials and engaging with multiple perspectives can help the arts, cultural studies and the medical humanities to establish critical conversations and amplify the goals and scope of their respective work.  I am also the Director of Kent's MA in Medical Humanities.  For more details, see my staff profile at Kent,