Elizabeth Donaldson

I am pleased to be nominated for member-at-large of SLSA. I have been a member since 1997, when I was a graduate student studying nature writing and American literature at SUNY, Stony Brook. Now my research focuses on feminist disability studies of mental health, and I direct the medical humanities minor at the New York Institute of Technology. I have published on LSD-inspired disability-immersion experiences of schizophrenia, mental illness in graphic medicine and comics, antipsychiatry in Lauren Slater’s memoirs, and physiognomy and madness in Jane Eyre. As the member-at-large for SLSA I would like to advocate for disability issues in the SLSA community and at our annual conference, in order to foster greater participation and better access for our members.