Disabled by Design: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Anindita Charles Xavier explores the representation of disability, state control, and body politics in Ishiguro’s novel.
The Queer Pleasures and Pains of Autotheory
Harriet Mossop examines pleasure and pain as potential entryways into queer auto-theory in this reflection on ‘Locating the “I”: autoethnography as queer methodology’, a workshop led by João Florêncio and Edyta Just at the Queer Medical Humanities PhD School.
Breaking the Rules: Autistic-Led Pedagogy in Literary Studies
‘I am an autistic academic obsessed with how the poetic rules are broken.’ Laura Brook on neuroqueer approaches to the teaching of poetry.
Narrating Anxiety through Lovecraftian Horror
Büke Sağlam takes us through the weird and wonderful world of Lovecraft’s writings, exploring the link between his work, his anxieties, and posthumanist thinking.
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction Book Review
Sophie Ritson reviews Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction by Talia Schaffer (Princeton UP, 2021).
Through the Kaleidoscope: Creative Writing in Healthcare Education
Roshni Beeharry considers the multitude of ways creative writing practice contributes to a well-rounded healthcare education.
On Zadie Smith’s Fat Resistance
Sara Fogarty Olmos re-reads Zadie Smith’s On Beauty (2005) and articulates the politics of fat resistance and the black female body. Fat has been neglected in literary discussion. While works of literature like William
Challenging Narrative in the Critical Medical Humanities
Tom Hey explores the role of illness narrative in the medical humanities, from its importance in cementing the field to crucial questions about what lies beyond.
Critical Medical Humanities: The Literary Connection
Blaise Sales explores how the imaginative, reflective and analytical skills of the literary field are a vital component of multidisciplinary approaches to medicine.
Chronicity: Future in the Past (Part II)
Alex Henry, working on a crip and feminist disability studies analysis of undiagnosed chronic illness in 21st Century British women’s writing, explores the pandemic’s impact on his work.