Charles Anderson
Recent Publications and Presentations
 

Books: 

Writing and Healing: Toward an Informed Practice.  Edited Collection. With Marian MacCurdy.  National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2000.

Richard Selzer and the Rhetoric of Surgery.  Carbondale, IL:  Southern Illinois University Press, 1989.

Journal Special Issues:

 Writing and Healing. Special issue of Literature and Medicine.  19.1 (Spring 2000).  Editor.

 Book Chapters and Articles:

“The Reader’s Response and Why it Matters in Biomedical Ethics. With Martha Montello. Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics.  Edited by Rita Charon and Martha Montello. New York: Routledge, 2002.

 “Narrative in Bioethics: An American Journal of Bioethics Commentary.” American Journal of Bioethics, 1:1 (Winter 2001).

 “’Forty acres of cotton waiting to be picked. . .’:  Medical Students, Storytelling, and the Rhetoric of Healing.” Literature and Medicine 17.2 (Fall 1998).

 “’Carry me forward . . . into the future in your heart’:  The Place of Narrative in Health Professions Education.”  Medical Encounter: A Publication of the American Academy on Physician and Patient, 11 (Fall 1994): 9-11.

 “’It is the Poet Who Heals’: Richard Selzer’s Literature of Wholeness.”  Bioethics Forum, 9 (Summer 1993): 40-44.

 “Beginning the World Again: Metaphor and the Early Literature of AIDS.”  With Yvonne Hickey.  Bioethics Forum, 9 (Spring 1993), 17-22.

 “The Exact Location of the Soul.”  Reprint of Chapter three of Richard Selzer and the Rhetoric of Surgery.  In Murdo William McRae, ed.  The Literature of Science: Perspectives on Popular Scientific Writing.  Athens, GA:  The University of Georgia Press, 1993.

 Editorial Positions

Associate Editor.  Literature and Medicine , July 2000 to the present.

Book Review Editor.  Literature and Medicine. Selected books, recruited reviewers, and edited reviews, 1994-2000.

Editorial Board.  The Journal of Medical Humanities, 1993-1996.

 Conference Papers

 “Composing Health:  In Search of Healing Narrative.”  Conference on College Composition and Communication.  San Antonio, TX, March 2004.

 “Composing Selves:  In Search of Healing Narrative.”  Narrative Medicine:  A Colloquium.  Division of Narrative Medicine.  Columbia School of Medicine.  New York, May 2003.

“Literature and Philosophy in Biomedical Ethics: An Argument for Cooperation, Collaboration, Engagement, and Marriage.”  American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH).  Philadelphia, October 1999.

 “Writing and Healing: Toward an Informed Practice.”  NCTE National Conference.  Denver, November 1999.  This was a 75 minute, multimedia session. I was the sole presenter. 

“’You Must Have Picked Some Cotton when You Were a Kid.’”: Story Telling and the Rhetoric of Healing.  CCCC, Chicago, April 1998.

 “Learning to Be a Doctor:  Narratives in Medical Education.”  Literature Special Interest Section, ASBH National Conference.  Baltimore, MD, November 1997.

“Assessing the Impact of Literacy on Care: The Case of a Young Physician.”  ASBH National Conference.  Baltimore, MD, November 1997.

 Workshops for University and Other Audiences

“Enabling Community in Online Learning Environments.”  Accepted for presentation at CCCC 2005.  March 2005.

 “Making Sense of Narrative Reasoning.” An Invited Lecture and Workshop.  Dept. of History and Philosophy of Medicine.  University of Kansas Medical Center.  Kansas City, MO, December 2004.

Narrative and Medicine. Opening workshop for NEH sponsored, year long program development project called The Human Side of Medicine.  University of Oklahoma Medical School, Oklahoma City, November 2004

 “Writing and Healing.”  An Invited Lecture and Workshop.  Dept. of History and Philosophy of Medicine.  University of Kansas Medical Center.  Kansas City, MO, December 2003.

  “Writing and Reading to Heal.”  A Workshop for Teachers.  Ithaca College.  Ithaca, NY. 20 February 2004 

“Multiple Reading:  Tracking the Intersection of Self and Text.”  Part of an NEH Seminar for Faculty Development in the Division of Narrative Medicine.  Columbia School of Medicine.  New York, February 2004.

 “Lines and Spaces.”  With Melinda Wright.  A week-long, intensive writing workshop for children involved in school shootings from Colorado, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and six students from Sarajevo.  Ferncliff Presbyterian Camp, Little Rock, July 2000, July 2001, July 2002.

 “Publishing in Medical Humanities Journals.”  Presentation to the Medical Rhetoric Special Interest Group. CCCC. Minneapolis, April 2000.  

 Rhetoric and the Medical Humanities.  Intensive Workshop in Medical Ethics, UAMS Division of Medical Humanities. Little Rock, AR, July 1997.  4 hours contact time.

 Rhetoric and the Medical Humanities.  With Barbara Heifferon and Judy Segal.  ASBH National Conference.  Baltimore, MD, November 1997.  3 hours contact time.

“Narrative Ethics and the Healing Arts.”  A half-day workshop presented as part of the UAMS Medical Humanities Division Intensive Bioethics Institute.  Little Rock, AR, June 1996.

 “Encounters with the Other, Encounters with the Self: Narrative Writing in the Health Professions.”  A three-hour pre-conference workshop for physicians, teachers, and other medical and medical school personnel.  With Dr. Rita Charon.  Society for Health and Human Values (SHHV) National Meeting.  San Diego, CA, October 1995. 

“Literature and Medicine:  Developing the Clinical Imagination.”  A two-day pre- conference workshop for practicing physicians attending the American College of Physicians National Convention.  The workshop covered reading and writing processes and explored the narrative relationships between literary texts and doctoring.  With Rita Charon and Anne Hawkins. Atlanta, GA, March 1995. 

 “Narrative Writing in Health Professions Education.”  A three-hour pre-conference workshop for physicians, teachers, and other medical and medical school personnel.  SHHV National Conference.  Washington, DC, November 1993.

Professional Service

Program Committee, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities National Meeting.  Responsible for reading and responding to proposals and for helping to design overall conference program, 1996, 1997.

 Literature and Medicine Section Chair, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.  Charged with designing the program at the national meeting.  Responsible for reading and selecting papers for presentation, conducting business meeting, and chairing section session, 1996.  Reelected in 1996 to serve through 1997

Awards and Honors

Teaching with Technology Award for Best Practices in a Fully Online Class.  UALR Teaching with Technology Fair.  Fall 2003.

 “Healing Narratives: The Stories that Make us Whole.” Lori Ann Roscetti Memorial Lecture on Ethical and Humanitarian Issues in Medicine, April 10, 2001. Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL.

Commencement Speaker 1997.  As 1996 Teacher of the Year, I was given the honor of speaking at the UALR May commencement ceremony.

 University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) University Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching, May 1996.  Selected from the top teaching candidates from each college by a nationally appointed committee.

 UALR College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching, May 1996.  Given by the college to the faculty member judged to be the top teaching candidate of the year.

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