Expert discusses response to AIDS
Treichler |
ne of the most important chroniclers of how HIV/AIDS is dealt with in American culture and within communities will speak at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 31, in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library.
Paula Treichler '72 (PhD), professor of women's studies and of medical communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will discuss "Medicine, Culture, and Narrative Power: AIDS on General Hospital," a close look at the community and cultural responses to AIDS and the spread of AIDS in Africa. Treichler's talk is free and open to the public. Nancy Chin, assistant professor in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, will introduce the speaker.
Since earning her doctorate in linguistics and psycholinguistics at the University, Treichler has held faculty appointments and administrative positions in a number of programs at the University of Illinois.
She is the author and coauthor of many books, including How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS (1999). In addition, she has published essays on feminist theory, and on language and its relationship to gender, medicine, and American women's writing. Currently, she is writing a book on a cultural analysis of condoms in America since 1880.
Her talk is part of the yearlong Neilly Series, which is supported by the Andrew H. Neilly and Janet Dayton Neilly Endowment, and the River Campus Libraries. For more information, contact the library at x5-4461.
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