Lisa Diedrich (Stony Brook University) and Briana Martino (Simmons University)
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 12:00 - 1:30 pm Central
In this talk, Lisa Diedrich and Briana Martino introduce and reflect on the field of graphic medicine through a discussion of their forthcoming edited collection, Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine. Diedrich and Martino have coined the term keywords/keyimages to capture what is unique about the comics form. The book includes contributions from comics artists, scholars, and health practitioners. The interdisciplinary and multimodal project shows how graphic medicine bridges academia’s siloed medical and liberal arts campuses. Thus, the book provides a resource for teaching and research in many fields: medicine, nursing, and other allied health professions, medical and health humanities, disability studies, art, visual cultural studies, media and communication studies, and comics studies.
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Lisa Diedrich is professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. Her research and teaching interests are in critical disability and illness studies and graphic medicine. She is the author of Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism, Indirect Action, and Treatments. Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine, co-edited with Briana Martino, is forthcoming soon!
Briana Martino is associate professor and chair of Communications at Simmons University. Their research and teaching interests are in visual culture and communication, mad studies, and graphic medicine. Their work is published in MAI: Journal of Feminism and Visual Culture, The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and Graphic Medicine Review. Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine, co-edited with Lisa Diedrich, is forthcoming soon!
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