Elaine Schattner. From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. xiv + 360 pp. $29.95, cloth, ISBN 978-0-231-19226-2. Reviewed by Anne Marie Champagne (Yale Center for Cultural Sociology) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (May, 2024) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) Happy to see this book Read More
Category: Announcements
Missing in Action
Been caring for family and adjusting to several life changes and challenges this year. This website does not accurately reflect the status of my various projects, dissertation, or work life. I unfortunately do not have the time necessary to broadcast such things. For now, there is this: 1. I am a contracted consultant, working the Read More
Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter
Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter, the volume I co-edited with Asia Friedman, is now available in hard cover and digital editions (soft cover forthcoming in Spring 2024)! The book abstract (different from the blurb posted below), all chapter abstracts, and contributor bios are available on the promotional site I designed for the book, Read More
Featured in Washington Post Article
Excited to have my research and experience spotlighted, alongside the advocacy work of NPOAS and Flat Closure Now, in this Washington Post article on mastectomy and aesthetic flat closure by journalist Fran Kritz. READ FULL ARTICLE Flat closure has always been an option, but Anne Marie Champagne, a PhD student at Yale whose research is Read More
Appointed to NPOAS Advisory Council
I am honored and excited to announce that I have been appointed to the Advisory Council of NPOAS, a nonprofit advocating for the right to optimal aesthetic outcomes – surgical closures – for BC patients who choose to live flat after mastectomy. I look forward to sharing both my sociocultural expertise and personal experience to Read More
Body and Embodiment in Society (Syllabus)
Body & embodiment in society Syllabus by Anne Marie Champagne While home sick and waiting for delayed COVID PCR test results, I finished designing, from scratch, the first draft of my syllabus for “Body and Embodiment in Society,” which I envision teaching as an upper-level college seminar. I go heavy on the reading (80-120 pages Read More
Theory of an Art Market Scandal
This month our inaugural guest edited special issue, on the cultural sociology of reading, went to print. We are now working with Lisa McCormick (University of Edinburgh) on the second issue in our guest curated series, a special issue on the cultural sociology of music and art, forthcoming early 2022, and we are pleased to Read More