This summer, I attended 2024 UNC’s Burch Field Research Seminar on Infectious Disease through the lenses of science and literature. Many people (understandably) seemed confused about how literature and biology were relevant to each other, especially how literature was relevant … Read more

Does medicine speak to us? In what ways are we persuaded by the underlying messages of pharmaceutical campaigns, drug advertisements, or medical commercials?  I asked these crucial questions as I drafted my Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) proposal to the … Read more

“Whether ill people want to tell stories or not, illness calls for stories” — Arthur Frank, The Wounded Storyteller.  Frank’s assertion that illness calls for stories captures the central mission of ANTH 272/ENGL 264: Healing in Ethnography and Literature, a … Read more

2025 HHC Conference in Philadelphia The 2025 Health Humanities Consortium Conference (HHC), co-presented by Jefferson Humanities & Health and the Health Humanities Consortium, will be held in Center City, Philadelphia from April 2-5, 2025. The annual HHC Conference is an … Read more

  Last year, Dr. Kym Weed, a co-director of HHIVE, joined a Global Convening Program funded by The British Academy to examine current approaches to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This interdisciplinary team, known as the Just Transitions for AMR Working Group, … Read more

Henry James, regarded as one of the most prolific writers of the English language, contributed much to the literary world with novels such as The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Bostinians (1886) and The Ambassadors (1903). His works often centered … Read more

During the summer, HHIVE Lab’s Dr. Kym Weed and Dr. Jordynn Jack had the opportunity to travel to Tübingen, Germany as part of a UNC Global Partnership award, a program run by UNC Global to establish and encourage international rapport … Read more