Chinmay Murali
Biographic Data
| ID | 6042006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chinmay Murali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chinmay |
| FAMILY NAME | Murali |
| SIGNATURE | MURALI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6306-3717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Comics and women’s mental health: Five stories
Jeanne-Marie Viljoen’s Comics and Women’s Mental Health examines five hand-drawn graphic memoirs authored by women, demonstrating the potential of graphic medicine to offer nuanced perspectives on
“I set out to make a comic that I would want to read”: A conversation on queer motherhood and LGBTQ+ comics with A.K. Summers
A. K. Summers’ graphic memoir Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag (2014) visually enunciates the author’s lived experience as a pregnant butch in a cis-normative culture. In this interview, Summers elaborates on her intention behind creating the memoir as bestowing visibility and intelligibility to the reproductive experiences of the LGBTQ+ community. The conversation also addresses the memoirist’s insecurities and fears as a queer par…
‘Don’t Touch Anything’: Tactility, Covid-19, and graphic medicine
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the precarious porosity of the human body. Biological vulnerability and the fear of contagion in recent times has prompted the exercise of caution by enforcing distinct demarcating boundaries between the environment, the self, and the other. Thus, the faculty of touch is restricted despite its importance in functional, developmental, haptic, intimate, non-verbal, therapeutic, cultural, and social dimensions. Aven…
‘There were days I felt empty’: Care, affect, and graphic medicine
There is a world, invisible to many, of terminally ill people being cared for full time by a loving family member or friend. These caregivers are living with burdens and pressures that even regular visitors can miss. Stan Mack (Stan Mack in Sandra Lee Fenster's (2000), 'When a Comic Is Taken Seriously,' The New York Times)Care and labour are inextricably linked, particularly in the context of chronic illness, as caregivers often bear emotional, s…
Finally making sense’: Graphic medicine and ADHD diagnosis in adulthood
This article aims to examine the lived experiences of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis in adulthood, emphasising its revelatory nature and diverse emotional responses it provokes. The diagnosis serves as a pivotal moment of self-discovery, often evoking feelings of validation and identity affirmation. However, it also triggers a complex array of emotions, including grieving for the childhood self, frustration with society…
This will keep me happy for weeks”: Care objects, affect and graphic medicine
Looking beyond anthropocentric care relationships reveals nuanced levels of interdependence among human and non-human entities. Attention to these heterogeneous inter-relationships illuminates the subtle and visceral affective intensities among diverse participants, including humans, objects and the environment, among others. The interdisciplinary field of graphic medicine foregrounds these entanglements through comic affordances, challenging the…
Beyond wrinkles: Ageing, graphic medicine, and Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’s Blossoms in Autumn
Ageing, an inevitable biological process, is often oversimplified, subjecting elderly individuals to both positive and negative sociocultural stereotypes. Elderly individuals are stigmatised as passive, suffering and asexual, while simultaneously being expected to embody an active, successful and productive approach towards ageing. Departing from these narrow perceptions, this article draws examples from Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh's graphic narrat…
‘As the reader witnesses the character’s learning, they are learning as well’: Talking comics, graphic medicine, and menopause with M.K. Czerwiec
M.K. Czerwiec, a.k.a. comic nurse, is one of the founding members of the graphic medicine movement which meshes the concerns of comics and healthcare. Czerwiec combines her experience as a healthcare practitioner and her fascination for the visual aesthetics of comics in exploring the representations of health and illness in graphic medicine. In this interview, Czerwiec elaborates on the significance of her Eisner award-winning comics anthology, …
Graphic Medicine and the Critique of Contemporary U.S. Healthcare
The time is out of joint’: Temporality, Covid-19 and graphic medicine
This article aims to theorise the human experiences of time during the lockdown (in the first phase of the pandemic) and the COVID-19 pandemic through the verbo-visual exposition of graphic medicine that combines the medium of comics and healthcare. The event of the pandemic has not only bifurcated our perception of time in terms of a 'before' and an 'after' but also complicated our awareness and experience of time. Put differently, an epochal tr…
Drawing infertility: An interview with Paula Knight, Jenell Johnson, Emily Steinberg, and Phoebe Potts
Although infertility is a gender-neutral health quandary, women are often blamed and stigmatised for the couple’s failure to reproduce. The valorisation of the maternal within the discursive constructions of womanhood engenders severe psychic harm to childless women. In such a context, the recent proliferation of graphic memoirs on infertility, where women recount the affective perceptions and sensed realities of their infertility experiences att…
It just went wrong, as bodies are prone to do”: Graphic Medicine and the Trauma of Miscarriage
Drawing the mind: Aesthetics of representing mental illness in select graphic memoirs
Representation of psychological experiences necessitates a creative use of means of expression. In the field of graphic medicine, autobiographical narratives on mental illness find expression through the unique semiotic nature of comics, which facilitates the encapsulation of complex psychic-scapes and embodiment of the artist's experiences. In so doing, these verbal-visual techniques provide vividness and easily digested expression, translating …
The Infertile Body in the Clinic: Medicalization, Gaze, and Loss of Agency in Women’s Infertility Comics
As an emerging interdisciplinary field where comics and the discourse of healthcare intersect, graphic medicine has ushered in unique ways to address diverse themes related to health and illness. T
Feminine famishment: Graphic medicine and anorexia nervosa
Socio-cultural rigidities regarding the shape and size of a woman's body have not only created an urgency to refashion themselves according to a range of set standards but also generated an infiltrating sense of body dissatisfaction and poor self-esteem leading to eating disorders. Interestingly, through an adept utilisation of the formal strengths of the medium of comics, many graphic medical anorexia narratives offer insightful elucidations on …
I don’t even feel human anymore”: Monstrosity and Othering in Ken Dahl’s Monsters
The idea of the monster has functioned within various Western discourses, always carrying with it elements of difference, deviance, exclusion, and marginality irrespective of spatiotemporal differences. The monstrous often signified a liminal state of existence, remaining well within the western dualistic logic that operates through a series of binaries such as natural/unnatural, human/animal, self/other, normal/deviant. Within the discourses sur…
The time is out of joint’: Temporality, Covid-19 and graphic medicine
This article aims to theorise the human experiences of time during the lockdown (in the first phase of the pandemic) and the COVID-19 pandemic through the verbo-visual exposition of graphic medicine that combines the medium of comics and healthcare. The event of the pandemic has not only bifurcated our perception of time in terms of a 'before' and an 'after' but also complicated our awareness and experience of time. Put differently, an epochal tr…
I don’t even feel human anymore”: Monstrosity and Othering in Ken Dahl’s Monsters
The idea of the monster has functioned within various Western discourses, always carrying with it elements of difference, deviance, exclusion, and marginality irrespective of spatiotemporal differences. The monstrous often signified a liminal state of existence, remaining well within the western dualistic logic that operates through a series of binaries such as natural/unnatural, human/animal, self/other, normal/deviant. Within the discourses sur…
The Infertile Body in the Clinic: Medicalization, Gaze, and Loss of Agency in Women’s Infertility Comics
As an emerging interdisciplinary field where comics and the discourse of healthcare intersect, graphic medicine has ushered in unique ways to address diverse themes related to health and illness. T
Feminine famishment: Graphic medicine and anorexia nervosa
Socio-cultural rigidities regarding the shape and size of a woman's body have not only created an urgency to refashion themselves according to a range of set standards but also generated an infiltrating sense of body dissatisfaction and poor self-esteem leading to eating disorders. Interestingly, through an adept utilisation of the formal strengths of the medium of comics, many graphic medical anorexia narratives offer insightful elucidations on …
Drawing infertility: An interview with Paula Knight, Jenell Johnson, Emily Steinberg, and Phoebe Potts
Although infertility is a gender-neutral health quandary, women are often blamed and stigmatised for the couple’s failure to reproduce. The valorisation of the maternal within the discursive constructions of womanhood engenders severe psychic harm to childless women. In such a context, the recent proliferation of graphic memoirs on infertility, where women recount the affective perceptions and sensed realities of their infertility experiences att…
It just went wrong, as bodies are prone to do”: Graphic Medicine and the Trauma of Miscarriage
Drawing the mind: Aesthetics of representing mental illness in select graphic memoirs
Representation of psychological experiences necessitates a creative use of means of expression. In the field of graphic medicine, autobiographical narratives on mental illness find expression through the unique semiotic nature of comics, which facilitates the encapsulation of complex psychic-scapes and embodiment of the artist's experiences. In so doing, these verbal-visual techniques provide vividness and easily digested expression, translating …
Graphic Medicine and the Critique of Contemporary U.S. Healthcare
The time is out of joint’: Temporality, Covid-19 and graphic medicine
This article aims to theorise the human experiences of time during the lockdown (in the first phase of the pandemic) and the COVID-19 pandemic through the verbo-visual exposition of graphic medicine that combines the medium of comics and healthcare. The event of the pandemic has not only bifurcated our perception of time in terms of a 'before' and an 'after' but also complicated our awareness and experience of time. Put differently, an epochal tr…
‘As the reader witnesses the character’s learning, they are learning as well’: Talking comics, graphic medicine, and menopause with M.K. Czerwiec
M.K. Czerwiec, a.k.a. comic nurse, is one of the founding members of the graphic medicine movement which meshes the concerns of comics and healthcare. Czerwiec combines her experience as a healthcare practitioner and her fascination for the visual aesthetics of comics in exploring the representations of health and illness in graphic medicine. In this interview, Czerwiec elaborates on the significance of her Eisner award-winning comics anthology, …
“I set out to make a comic that I would want to read”: A conversation on queer motherhood and LGBTQ+ comics with A.K. Summers
A. K. Summers’ graphic memoir Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag (2014) visually enunciates the author’s lived experience as a pregnant butch in a cis-normative culture. In this interview, Summers elaborates on her intention behind creating the memoir as bestowing visibility and intelligibility to the reproductive experiences of the LGBTQ+ community. The conversation also addresses the memoirist’s insecurities and fears as a queer par…
‘Don’t Touch Anything’: Tactility, Covid-19, and graphic medicine
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the precarious porosity of the human body. Biological vulnerability and the fear of contagion in recent times has prompted the exercise of caution by enforcing distinct demarcating boundaries between the environment, the self, and the other. Thus, the faculty of touch is restricted despite its importance in functional, developmental, haptic, intimate, non-verbal, therapeutic, cultural, and social dimensions. Aven…
‘There were days I felt empty’: Care, affect, and graphic medicine
There is a world, invisible to many, of terminally ill people being cared for full time by a loving family member or friend. These caregivers are living with burdens and pressures that even regular visitors can miss. Stan Mack (Stan Mack in Sandra Lee Fenster's (2000), 'When a Comic Is Taken Seriously,' The New York Times)Care and labour are inextricably linked, particularly in the context of chronic illness, as caregivers often bear emotional, s…
Finally making sense’: Graphic medicine and ADHD diagnosis in adulthood
This article aims to examine the lived experiences of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis in adulthood, emphasising its revelatory nature and diverse emotional responses it provokes. The diagnosis serves as a pivotal moment of self-discovery, often evoking feelings of validation and identity affirmation. However, it also triggers a complex array of emotions, including grieving for the childhood self, frustration with society…
This will keep me happy for weeks”: Care objects, affect and graphic medicine
Looking beyond anthropocentric care relationships reveals nuanced levels of interdependence among human and non-human entities. Attention to these heterogeneous inter-relationships illuminates the subtle and visceral affective intensities among diverse participants, including humans, objects and the environment, among others. The interdisciplinary field of graphic medicine foregrounds these entanglements through comic affordances, challenging the…
Beyond wrinkles: Ageing, graphic medicine, and Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’s Blossoms in Autumn
Ageing, an inevitable biological process, is often oversimplified, subjecting elderly individuals to both positive and negative sociocultural stereotypes. Elderly individuals are stigmatised as passive, suffering and asexual, while simultaneously being expected to embody an active, successful and productive approach towards ageing. Departing from these narrow perceptions, this article draws examples from Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh's graphic narrat…
Comics and women’s mental health: Five stories
Jeanne-Marie Viljoen’s Comics and Women’s Mental Health examines five hand-drawn graphic memoirs authored by women, demonstrating the potential of graphic medicine to offer nuanced perspectives on
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