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Lisa Mendelman

Lisa Mendelman

Lisa Mendelman is assistant professor of English and digital humanities at Menlo College. She works in the health humanities, with a focus on gender, race, and affect in 20th-century America. Her first book, Modern Sentimentalism: Affect, Irony, and Female Authorship in Interwar America (Oxford University Press, 2019) chronicles the emotional history of the modern woman and the corollary reinvention of sentimentalism in US interwar fiction. icon

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The Art of Care: Susannah Cahalan on Madness, Diagnosis, and COVID-19

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“These are not the stories that medicine necessarily wants us to tell, but that means it’s even doubly important that we try our best to track down these narratives.”

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