| Postdoctoral Fellow Medical Humanities & Bioethics and
Department of Performance Studies .
Performances, cultures, and histories of medicine; disability studies .
Gretchen Case is a University Writing Program Fellow at Duke University and an Adjunct Lecturer in Northwestern University’s Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program. In the fall of 2008, she will teach in the Department of Social Medicine at the UNC Medical School. Her courses include graduate seminars (such as “Theorizing the Body” and “Storytelling in Medicine”) and a range of undergraduate courses (from “Disability, Art, and Culture” to “History of World Theater”) in performance studies, theater, communication studies, and academic writing. Dr. Case is an active performer, writer, and director on creative projects that are often related to her academic research. Her new performance, “Apoptosis is My Favorite Word,” will premier at an international symposium on cancer narratives in November 2008.
Dr. Case’s scholarly interests lie at the many intersections of the performing arts and the medical arts and sciences; in particular, she studies the ways in which medical stories of all sorts are told and heard. Her projects often combine performance, disability theory, cultures of medicine, oral history and ethnography. Dr. Case also has more than ten years of experience as a public historian, specializing in histories of science and medicine. A new research project includes an extensive series of interviews conducted with medical professionals in rural areas regarding their unique professional concerns.
Dr. Case received her PhD in Performance Studies in 2005 from UC Berkeley, where she received the University Pre-doctoral Humanities Fellowship, the Townsend Fellowship, the White Fellowship, the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, and the Mask and Dagger Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. While at UCB, Dr. Case began conducting original research on scar stories: narratives about scars resulting from medical interventions. This ongoing project has led to a book manuscript, “Wishing on Scars: Meaning, Memory and Misdirection of Scarred Bodies.” She maintains a commitment to the use of performance in medical education and recently published a co-authored article, “Moral Imagination Takes the Stage: Readers' Theater in a Medical Context,” in the Journal of Learning Through the Arts. Other publications include entries for a forthcoming Encyclopedia of Disability Studies and a chapter—including a performance script—in the edited volume Remembering: Performing Oral History. .
g-case@northwestern.edu Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program
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