Introduction

[Long, Thomas]

Thank you, Felice, for the invitation to introduce ourselves.

I have recently accepted an appointment in the School of Nursing at the U of Connecticut (Storrs) where I will work with faculty and doctoral students on their writing projects (dissertations, articles, grant apps), write and edit for the School of Nursing (including its annual), teach, and continue my own research agenda.

Trained in early-modern and in early American studies, I have focused much of my work on cultural representations of the body, disease, and sexuality (particularly queer sexualities). In addition to articles on sundry topics, my book, AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic, was published by State University of NY Press in 2005. Until the journal was discontinued by its publisher (prior to the publishing company's being sold to Taylor & Francis), I was editor-in-chief of Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly for nine years.

//Tom

Thomas Lawrence Long, PhD
Associate Professor-in-Residence
School of Nursing
University of Connecticut
231 Glenbrook Rd. U-2026
Storrs, CT 06269-2026
Email: Thomas...@uconn.edu

Professional Writing Coach and Editor
http://nursingwriting.wordpress.com/

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[Alice]

Hello -

My name is Alice Dwyer and I am a psychiaty trainee in Sydney,
Australia. Previous to doing medicine I did a Bachelor of Arts with
honours at the University of Sydney and majored in studies in
religion, with minors in philosophy and english literature.

I have published in the area of ethics, art theory (in the context of
religious issues) and the sociology of religion. In light of my
medical studies I am interested in returning to some more explorations
of medical understandings of the self, the body, illness and recovery
from the perspective of the humanities, particularly philosophical
approaches, and the representations of meaning within literature,
poetry, history and painting.

It's nice to meet you all!

Alice Dwyer

[Lisa DeTora]

I am an assistant prof at a small liberal arts college who has an
interest in medical humanities. I feel like I am just starting out. I
completed the advanced narrative medicine workshop last month and have
presented some medical humanities and medical rhetoric work at
conferences in the past couple of years. Before reentering academia, I
worked as a medical and scientific writer.

I am trying to situate my work and assess whather I need additional
training (eg bioethics) to really segueway into the type of work I'd
like to do long-term.

Lisa DeTora
Department of English
Asst Director of the College Writing Program
Lafayette College
Easton PA 18042
phone: 732 668 5136 (cell)