medical humanities

Dr. Ronald F. Lunsford

November 29, 2018 by Alex Chapin
department: English

Ronald LunsfordProfessor
Department of English

I am a Professor of English, Linguistics, and Rhetoric at UNC Charlotte. Over a long career, I have written about Cognitive Linguistics and Functional Linguistics. I have applied Cognitive Linguistics to the study of literature and both Cognitive and Functional Linguistics to writing instruction. In recent years, I have applied genre theory, a branch of Functional Linguistics, to medical communication.

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Dr. Paula Gallant Eckard

November 13, 2018 by Alex Chapin
department: English

Paula EckardAssociate Professor
Department of English

I am interested in the intersections between literature and medicine, including illness narratives, representations of the body, and women’s experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood. My research also focuses on the wellbeing of children and families in literature.

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Dr. Christopher D. Mellinger

September 28, 2018 by Chris Mellinger
department: Languages and Culture Studies

Associate Professor
Department of Languages and Culture Studies

My research is centered on translation and interpreting and aims to understand the various cognitive, social, technological, and linguistic processes involved in language mediation and intercultural communication. I also research how translation and interpreting impact language access in medical and legal settings, with a particular interest in how mediated communication alters interaction among the various parties. At several institutions, I have taught courses on Spanish for Healthcare, medical terminology, medical translation and interpreting, and healthcare disparities in U.S. Latino populations.
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Dr. Shannon Sullivan

September 28, 2018 by Shannon Sullivan
department: Philosophy

Professor
Department of Philosophy

I am Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy and Health Psychology at UNC Charlotte. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I teach and write in the intersections of feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy. I am author of Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism and Feminism (2001), Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (2006), Good White People: The Problem with Middle Class White Anti-Racism (2014), and The Physiology of Sexist and Racist Oppression (2015). I also am co-editor of four books including Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (2007) and Feminist Interpretations of William James (2015).

Good White People was named a 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and a Ms. Magazine Must-Read Feminist Book of 2014. It also was awarded The Society of Professors of Education 2016 Outstanding Book Award.

Currently I am finishing a monograph called White Privilege as part of Polity Press’ new general readership series, THINK, and I also am working on an edited scholarly book on Philosophy in/of the South.

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