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05/05/2023
https://www.dominican.edu/news/news-listing/english-professors-research-focuses-invisible-illnesses
Our Communication and Media Relations department (thanks Dave Albee et al.) have posted in News Hub on the Homepage today a faculty profile on assistant professor of English Dr. Vivian Delchamps.
She is teaching her students at Dominican the connections between how women authors from the 1800s articulated their experiences with illness, pain, and medical diagnosis in ways that still resonate with people living with disability and chronic illness today.
Dr. Delchamps’ research includes “The Invisible Illness Narratives in the United States” about how people have turned to social media to reflect on their experiences living with medical conditions that deeply impact an individual’s mental and physical health but are not verifiable by medical data or physical examination.
English Professor's Research Focuses On "Invisible Illnesses" A scholar of 19th-century American literature, Dr.
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