PANEL AT THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA) CONFERENCE 2021

Saturday, January 9, 2021 | 10:15-11:30am

Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum

Lisa Diedrich will be presiding over a session at the MLA conference in 2021 that will demonstrate graphic medicine in action using a keywords and keyimages framework. We will have six lightning presentations on examples of verbal and visual tropes illustrating the formal elements, theoretical concepts, practical and pedagogical tools, and health and illness politics of the field of graphic medicine.

Presentations:

‘And None of It Fits inside Panels’: Graphic Silence in Graphic Medicine (Briana Martino, Simmons University)

The Therapeutic Performance in, and of, Ian Williams’s The Bad Doctor (Anna Mukamal, Stanford University)

Dialogic Diagnostics (Elizabeth J. Donaldson, New York Institute. of Technology, Old Westbury)

Sustainable Wellness in Seven Generations (Rosemary J. Jolly, Penn State University, University Park)

Assembly: The Work of Grief (Tahneer Oksman, Marymount Manhattan College)

‘Birthgiving’ Comics and Women’s Reproductive Rights in South Korea (Haejoo Kim, Syracuse University)