Students in the Spring 2020 course “Literature and Medicine” taught by Elena Fratto (Slavic Languages and Literatures) discover that literary texts keep them connected to one another — and help them grapple with their own experiences during the pandemic.
During online class sessions and precepts, Fratto and her three assistant instructors — graduate students Jacob Plagmann (Comparative Literature), Gabriella Ferrari (Slavic languages and Literatures) and Liza Mankovskaia (Slavic Languages and Literatures) — have encouraged “free-form discussion on what our societies are experiencing and how we can read and approach these events through the lens of literature.
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Since 2017, Fratto has convened the Humanities Council working group “Bodies of Knowledge” which engages faculty, staff, and graduate students in questions around embodiment from a wide range of viewpoints including the medical humanities, disability studies, art history and aesthetics, and environmental studies.
