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: Publications
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
“Dripping Springs Garden” published in Spillway #28
Grateful to Spillway magazine for publishing this little poem of mine, and to Dripping Springs Garden, Arkansas, where new love and the idea of my daughter were first planted. To view the full list of contributors, visit Spillway Issue #28. Print copies are available for purchase at Small Distribution Press. ABOUT: Spillway magazine is an annual Read More
Lantern Tree: New Poem up at The Journal
Check out my newly published poem “Lantern Tree” in the summer 2019 issue of The Journal. You can see, read or listen to it here: http://thejournalmag.org/archives/17374. I wrote this poem in late November 2008 for David Owen Kent, aka Deva, shortly after his passing that same month. (I didn’t start submitting poems to lit mags Read More
“Water, Pray” published in Tin House Online
Just received the good news that my poem “Water, Pray” was published today (19 July 2019) in Tin House Online. I am happy as can be that Alana Csappos and Camille Dungy saw fit to give this poem such a fine home. You can read the complete poem here. “Mercy come top me, sink me, Read More
Poetry Debut in The Southern Review
The summer 2019 issue of The Southern Review, in which I make my poetry debut, is out! I couldn’t ask for a better or more appropriate home for my poems “Blue Sailors” and “Les bleuets,” which bear a connection to Baton Rouge, the birthplace of my late husband, Patrick. Special thanks to Jessica Faust for Read More