Ann Jurecic
Biographic Data
| ID | 6713326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Jurecic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Jurecic |
| SIGNATURE | JURECIC A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 370 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Essaying Pain
Narrative has long been central to the study of literature about illness, but we err if we assume that memoir and fiction alone depict the embodied experience of physical suffering. Contemporary writers also turn to the essay. In French, essayer means to attempt, and writing essays requires facing difficult questions and predicaments, confronting uncertainty and the unknown. Among recent literary essays, many are about women in pain. These includ…
Teaching Post-truth
In recent years it has become almost normal for politicians to overtly and routinely lie. How should educators respond? Students should explore post-truth politics, develop research skills, and practice inquirybased factual writing, but they need more than literacy skills. Liberal education prepares them to be active, ethical participants in democracy
The Illness Essay
Montaigne invented the essay genre in response to a near-fatal injury. He produced a flexible, wandering form that was especially well suited to confronting illness, injury, and mortality. Literary critics, however, have focused attention on illness memoirs to the exclusion of the illness essay. Given the publication of a number of extraordinary book-length illness essays in 2013–2014, among them Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams, Eula Biss's On…
Illness as Narrative
For most of literary history, personal confessions about illness were considered too intimate to share publicly. By the mid-twentieth century, however, a series of events set the stage for the emergence of the illness narrative. The increase of chronic disease, the transformation of medicine into big business, the women's health movement, the AIDS/HIV pandemic, the advent of inexpensive paperbacks, and the rise of self-publishing all contributed …
Doctors in the Making
Reviewed by: Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education Ann Jurecic (bio) Suzanne Poirier. Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2009. 200 pp. ISBN 978-1587297922, $39.95. Suzanne Poirier, author of Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education, taught literature to medical students at the University of Illinois College of Medicine for twenty-five years, and in this new book she focuses her…
Mindblindness
Mindblindness:Autism, Writing, and the Problem of Empathy Ann Jurecic (bio) On the first day of class, Gregory stood out as different, even bizarre. While he contributed eagerly to class discussion, his comments were off topic and they often focused narrowly on his own concerns. Because this was a composition class, I noted immediately that his way of thinking about writing was rigid, mechanical, and occasionally extreme. In the first several wee…
Illness as Narrative
For most of literary history, personal confessions about illness were considered too intimate to share publicly. By the mid-twentieth century, however, a series of events set the stage for the emergence of the illness narrative. The increase of chronic disease, the transformation of medicine into big business, the women's health movement, the AIDS/HIV pandemic, the advent of inexpensive paperbacks, and the rise of self-publishing all contributed …
The Illness Essay
Montaigne invented the essay genre in response to a near-fatal injury. He produced a flexible, wandering form that was especially well suited to confronting illness, injury, and mortality. Literary critics, however, have focused attention on illness memoirs to the exclusion of the illness essay. Given the publication of a number of extraordinary book-length illness essays in 2013–2014, among them Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams, Eula Biss's On…
Mindblindness
Mindblindness:Autism, Writing, and the Problem of Empathy Ann Jurecic (bio) On the first day of class, Gregory stood out as different, even bizarre. While he contributed eagerly to class discussion, his comments were off topic and they often focused narrowly on his own concerns. Because this was a composition class, I noted immediately that his way of thinking about writing was rigid, mechanical, and occasionally extreme. In the first several wee…
Doctors in the Making
Reviewed by: Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education Ann Jurecic (bio) Suzanne Poirier. Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2009. 200 pp. ISBN 978-1587297922, $39.95. Suzanne Poirier, author of Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education, taught literature to medical students at the University of Illinois College of Medicine for twenty-five years, and in this new book she focuses her…
Illness as Narrative
For most of literary history, personal confessions about illness were considered too intimate to share publicly. By the mid-twentieth century, however, a series of events set the stage for the emergence of the illness narrative. The increase of chronic disease, the transformation of medicine into big business, the women's health movement, the AIDS/HIV pandemic, the advent of inexpensive paperbacks, and the rise of self-publishing all contributed …
The Illness Essay
Montaigne invented the essay genre in response to a near-fatal injury. He produced a flexible, wandering form that was especially well suited to confronting illness, injury, and mortality. Literary critics, however, have focused attention on illness memoirs to the exclusion of the illness essay. Given the publication of a number of extraordinary book-length illness essays in 2013–2014, among them Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams, Eula Biss's On…
Teaching Post-truth
In recent years it has become almost normal for politicians to overtly and routinely lie. How should educators respond? Students should explore post-truth politics, develop research skills, and practice inquirybased factual writing, but they need more than literacy skills. Liberal education prepares them to be active, ethical participants in democracy
Essaying Pain
Narrative has long been central to the study of literature about illness, but we err if we assume that memoir and fiction alone depict the embodied experience of physical suffering. Contemporary writers also turn to the essay. In French, essayer means to attempt, and writing essays requires facing difficult questions and predicaments, confronting uncertainty and the unknown. Among recent literary essays, many are about women in pain. These includ…
Psychology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Empathy (3 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (3 works)