Graduate Student Interviews -- Vivian Delchamps and Disability and Medical Diagnosis in 19C American Lit

Document Type

Article

Source

H-CivWar

Publication Date

12-1-2020

Department

Literature and Languages

Abstract

The editorial staff hopes you had a relaxing Thanksgiving. Today we start our Graduate Student Interview series back up with Vivian Delchamps, a Ph.D. Candidate in English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Delchamps studies and teaches 19th-century American literature and is interested in disability studies, bioethics, dance, and the medical/health humanities. Her dissertation, ""The Names of Sickness': Disability and Medical Diagnosis in Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” draws upon key theories from disability studies and the health humanities to transport diagnosis out of a medical framework and assert its importance for literary scholarship. Her research has been partially supported by a 2020-2021 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, a 2019-2020 English Department Dissertation Year Fellowship, a 2018 Emily Dickinson International Society Graduate Student Fellowship, a 2017 Andrew W. Mellon EPIC Fellowship in Teaching Excellence, and a 2017 UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship. Delchamps is also the Disability Studies Advisor for the Disability Law Journal at UCLA and a member of the C19 Ad Hoc Committee on Disability and Accessibility. You can follow Vivian on Twitter (@VivianPhDancer )

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