International Health Humanities Network Membership

Susan Squier received her education at Princeton University and Stanford University. She is Brill Professor of Women's Studies, English and STS (Science, Technology and Society) at The Pennsylvania State University.

Her research Interests include: cultural studies of science and medicine; feminist theory; comics and medicine; disability studies and human-animal-object studies. Major Publications: Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City (1985); Babies in Bottles: Twentieth Century Visions of Reproductive Technology (1994); Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism (1984); Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation (1989); Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (1999); Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture (Duke University Press, 2003), Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine (Duke University Press, 2004) and Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet (2011) which won the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts.  With Dr. Ian Williams (UK) she co-edits the Penn State University Press book series, Graphic Medicine, which publishes scholarly studies of comics, as well as comics themselves, that enact and explore the experiences of health care, medicine, illness, and disability.

She was scholar in residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center (February-March 2001), Visiting Distinguished Fellow, LaTrobe University, Melbourne Australia (1992) and Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, Melbourne, Australia (1990-1991). She is Editorial Board member of the Journal of Medical Humanities, and Executive Board member and past President of the Society for Literature and Science. In Summer 2002, she co-directed (with Anne Hunsaker Hawkins) the NEH Summer Institute, "Medicine, Literature, and Culture," held at the Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey Medical Center. She is on the Editorial Board of the Penn State University Press, and the Selection Jury of the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize in 2011-2012.  She also serves on the Advisory Board of SymbioticA, Biological Arts, Perth, Western Australia.