The latest issue of SLSA journal Configurations features an interview with Literature and Medicine Comic Editor ComicNurse on #graphicmedicine as it enters its second decade as a movement and a practice: bit.ly/3oHREfO

Are you an ECR working on Medical/Health Humanities? (We can dedicate a coffee chat to THAT issue) 😄 Keep your eyes open for some exciting news from this account!!

Hey, The Polyphony Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities Jane Hartshorn @RegMedHums Medical Humanities Glasgow Dr Marie Allitt @NNNMHRmed SELMA Medical Humanities Literature and Medicine Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @hospital_senses Beata Gubacsi Would love some help spreading the word! 😁😁

I'm hiring a 2-year #postdoc (50K w/benefits+5K research stipend per year) as part of the FLOURISH #community #arts and #socialwellness research cluster I lead University of Toronto Scarborough. Interested? Apply now: utsc.utoronto.ca/healthsociety/… (see "Postdoctoral Fellow") Some details in 🧵:

Our new issue of Literature and Medicine features a collection of essays co-edited by Anne Stiles and Kristine Swenson on alternative health and wellness in the nineteenth century, as well as reviews by Diana Rose Newby, @Bassidiki, and Jordan McCullough: muse.jhu.edu/issue/44805

Call for Comics: "RUBBISH" Literature and Medicine graphicmedicine.org/call-for-comic… Graphic Medicine

We are always looking for works to review and reviewers to write for us! This is our current list of books in need of review. If you are interested in reviewing any of these or adding a book to the list, please contact our Book Reviewer Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴)! bit.ly/3xTFdDd

Dream come true: long & complex self-recombinant true life poem published in Johns Hopkins University Press's Literature and Medicine ! Here's the first page. Thanks to Michael Blackie and Anna Fenton-Hathaway!

Very excited to announce the release of our most recent issue: 39.2 (Fall 2021). Stay tuned for TOC tweets! muse.jhu.edu/issue/46986

Issue 39.2 features three new works in our front matter section responding to the prompt "Mask" muse.jhu.edu/issue/46986

Shane Neilson's (@sneilsonwwh) "Song of Masking Myself, 46" is a recombinant poem using Neilson's pre-pandemic writing on surgical masks with subsequent response, as filtered through virtual family practice experience as a disabled person. Oh, and Whitman.

Yoshiko Iwai, Zahra Khan, Sayantani DasGupta's"Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You: Anti-Masking Movements and the “War on Terror” troubles the assertion that military metaphors are cause or catalyst of the "current necropolitical anti-masking movement" muse.jhu.edu/article/840471

Shelley Wall's "Life Mask" in 39.2 (2021): muse.jhu.edu/article/840472