About the Event
In this installment of the Health and Humanities Research Seminar series, Lisa Olstein presents a reading and conversation titled “When the Lights Go Down: On the Eerie Dislocations of Illness”, moderated by Jo Hsu, Ph.D.
Poet and nonfiction writer Lisa Olstein will read from and discuss Pain Studies, a book-length lyric essay exploring pain, perception, and language, and Distinguished Office of Echoes, a collection of collage-erasure poems sourced from antique books of medicine. Olstein’s work frequently investigates the dislocations, inheritances, and insights of illness alongside what it means to examine and to be examined. She’ll be joined in conversation with Dr. Jo Hsu, Associate Chair of UT Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.
The Health and Humanities Research Seminar is sponsored by: The Humanities Institute, The College of Liberal Arts through the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities #1, Greg Hemphill, M.D. and Brenda B. Hemphill, Tom Vetter, M.D. and Imelda Vetter, and friends and supporters of the Humanities Institute.