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Rita Charon, MD, PhD is a general internist and literary scholar who originated the field of narrative medicine. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons and Executive Director of Columbia Narrative Medicine. Her work in narratology focuses on intersubjectivity, reader theory, and the works of Henry James. Her research investigates narrative medicine training, reflective practice, and health care justice and has been supported by the NIH, the NEH, and private foundations. She has authored, co-authored, or co-edited four books on narrative medicine. She lectures and teaches internationally on narrative medicine and is widely published in leading medical and literary journals.

 

www.narrativemedicine.org

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Catherine Rogers, MFA, MS, is Associate Director and Lecturer, Division of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, New York. Rogers has facilitated narrative medicine seminars in hospitals and universities across the US and Greece includingthe currentGreek language sessions in response to COVID. A two-time Fulbright Fellow, she led narrative medicine intensives at Aristotle University Thessaloniki Schools of English and Medicine and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.  She is a playwright and performer appearing at Dixon Place New York, Cleveland Public Theatre, Pantheatre Paris, Athens Centre, and Theatre Complicite London among many others. She is published in TDR/The Drama Review (2020), Gettysburg Review (2014),Voices Made Flesh (U Wisconsin), Our Changing Journey to the End (Praeger), ExCentric Narratives (HELAAS). Catherine is co-editor of Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques special issue “Medicine and/in Theatre.”In prior years, Catherine was Southeast Texas Arts Council Director, Texas Commission on the Arts Program Officer, and Assistant Professor Humanities,New York University.

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Philip John Davies has published widely on many aspects of US politics and culture, focussed especially on campaigns and elections.

Recent work includes guest editing a special issue of Journal of Political Marketing on the topic of US Political Marketing and International Contexts  vol. 16 no. 1 (January-March 2017); and contributing ‘The 2016 Election: Post-truth, post-feminist, or just post-Clinton?’, to Women and US Politics ((Heidelberg, Universitatsverlag Winter, in press) eds. Julia Nitz and Axel Schaefer; ‘Borders and Migration in the 2018 US Midterm Elections’ to Borders, Mobility and Migration (Boston, CAPA, 2019) eds. Catherine Colon et al, pp. 36-42; ‘The Soft Power of President Donald J Trump’, to Brexit, Trump and the Media (London, Abramis, 2017) eds. John Mair et al, pp. 269-275; ‘Obama’s Electoral Record: The Emerging Democratic Majority?’, to  The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) eds. Edward Ashbee and John Dumbrell, pp.51-65; and ‘Media and Politics’, to Developments in American Politics 9 (London, Red Globe, in progress) eds. Gillian Peele et al.

He has served as President of the European Association for American Studies, Chair of the American Politics Group of the UK, Chair of the UK Council of Area Studies Associations and Chair of the British Association for American Studies. He is Former Director of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library and Professor Emeritus of American Studies at De Montfort University. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.

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Kostas Ioannidis is assistant professor of theory and criticism of art at the Athens School of Fine Arts. A Fulbright Scholar (2012-13) and a Clark Art Institute Fellow (Summer 2021) Ioannidis has published essays on art history and theory and a book on Contemporary Greek Photography (Σύγχρονη Ελληνική Φωτογραφία). More recently he published the book An “exquisitely hybrid art”: poetics of photography in the late 19th and early 20th century(Μια “Υπερόχως Νόθος Τέχνη”: Ποιητικές της Φωτογραφίας. Τέλη 19ου-αρχές 20ού αιώνα) and co-authored with

Emmanouela Kantzia the book Three at sea (Τρεις εν Πλω).

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Eleni Mouzakiti is a visual artist, photography educator and curator of photography exhibitions and publications. She studied German Language and Literature in Athens, Berlin and Heidelberg. She holds an MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths College, University of London and a PhD in Arts and Humanities from the University of Derby, School of Art Design and Technology. She has been a fellow of the DAAD, the Greek State Scholarship Foundation and the Alexander. S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. Works of her owned by the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, U.S.A., the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece, the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, the ACG Art Collection and private collections

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