Candidates: SLSA 2021 Election

Standing for: 2021 SLSA Member-at-Large Candidates

• • Josh Dicaglio
  • Name: Josh Dicaglio
  • Candidate Statement:
    

    Since I first heard about SLSA as an undergraduate in Laura Walls's Literature and Science class over ten years ago, it has served as an essential community, providing valuable models for what a scholar can be, fruitful professional connections, and excellent opportunities for sharing research. I have attended SLSA four times (once at the SLSAeu in Malta), and my article, which was recently published in Configurations, won the 2020 SLSA's Schachterle essay prize. In response to this incredible support, I'd like an opportunity to assist the organization as a member-at-large. I hope to assist in whatever way I can to help the organization remain an exciting and rigorous venue for innovative work on science in the arts and humanities, including assisting the organization with bouncing back from the disruptions brought by Covid-19.

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• • Anne Hudson Jones
  • Name: Anne Hudson Jones
  • Candidate Statement:
    

    My primary interests and experience are in the areas of literature and medicine, interdisciplinary medical humanities, and the arts in clinical education and practice. My current research interests focus on narratives of medical catastrophes, caused by pandemics such as Covid-19 or by natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, earthquake in Haiti, and nuclear disaster in Fukushima. The complex interdependencies of medicine, science, and technology with narrative, music, poetry, and art that are so important in responding to such catastrophic events have been at the core of the intellectual work and inquiry the SLSA has fostered since its inception as SLS. I believe it is more important now than ever to strengthen the connections between the scholarly work in medical and health humanities with that of SLSA members, and I want to help make that happen.

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