A warm welcome to Danielle Spencer, who joins The Narrative Practices Lab as a Visiting Scholar from 1–26 June 2026.
Danielle is a faculty member in the Columbia University Narrative Medicine Graduate Program. Author of Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity (Oxford University Press, 2021) and co-author of Perkins-Prize-winning The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (OUP, 2017), her scholarly and creative work appears in diverse outlets, from The Lancet to Ploughshares. Her research interests include narrative medicine, health humanities, narrative ethics, and media criticism.
As part of her visit, Danielle will be giving a hybrid talk entitled ‘Heroic Doctors? From Medical Memoirs to The Pitt’ on 25 June, 3.30–5pm (BST). The talk will explore the contemporary genre of physician-author memoirs and their representations in popular media.
All welcome. Registrations via Eventbrite.
