About Dr. Stripling
 Dr. Stripling
is an independent scholar who draws from a rhetoric, literature, and law
background to lecture and to write about the intersection of the humanities and medicine.
She also develops curricula serving the needs of those in
English/Humanities and bioethics and
healthcare classrooms.
Education:
PhD Literature and Medicine (TCU 1997)
Concentration: Rhetoric, American
Literature, and Nature Essays. MA
(English), MLA (Liberal Arts), BA
(pre-law).
LECTURER, AUTHOR, EDUCATOR
EXPERIENCE
GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES:
2010—May 1-31st.
The University of Texas Medical Branch,
Galveston, TX. Visiting scholar with
stipend, working in Selzer
Archive in the Rare Book Room, Blocker
History of Medicine Collection at the
Moody Medical Library. Guest at the
Rosenberg House and research in library
in 2000 & 1998.
2009—The Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga
Springs, New York. Residential writer
staying in Spencer's Den (second floor
mansion). Research Richard Selzer's
20-year experience at Yaddo, taking
photos.
THEATRICAL READINGS:
TCCD-S, Ft. Worth, TX
2010—“Diary of an Infidel,” based on
Richard Selzer’s story, adapted for a
staged reading by Edwin Lynch (with the
World Premiere in New Haven), and
excerpted for a shorter presentation by
Dr. Stripling, Director, with faculty
readers for the district-wide Academics
Day. Comment: "It was a 360 degree
success."
2000—“Follow Your Heart,” based on
Richard Selzer’s story, “Whither Thou
Goest,” and adapted for a staged reading
by Greg Watkins (Medical Readers’
Theater, ed. Todd L. Savitt).
Presented by Dr. Stripling with faculty
readers for the district-wide Teachers’
Workshop.
LECTURER:
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Yale Medical
School (1998 Program for Humanities
in Medicine
Lecture Series). Janet and Richard
Selzer's houseguest.
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Texas Wesleyan University (1998 Humanic’s Pre-Professional Lecture Series and Ethics Panel; follow-up pre-professional brown bags in 2000 and 2001)
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The University
of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston,
TX. Brown bag university lecture
(1998).
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The University of Central Arkansas at Conway (1999 High Table Honor’s College Lecture Series)
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Tarrant County College (2000 Spring Faculty Retreat: lecture and readers' theater
performance)
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Stanford Medical School (2002 serving as commentator on Richard Selzer's lecture as well as introducing him at the medical school).
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Go to "Lectures" for descriptions.
Selzer
as Visiting Lecturer: In 2003
Dr. Stripling coordinated bringing Dr. Richard Selzer to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex where he first lectured at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center and
she introduced him at Grand Rounds.
Then he lectured at the University of North Texas-Health Science Center and
she introduced him to the medical students.
At last, he lectured to Texas Christian University faculty, students, and the Fort Worth public. He was
Dr. Stripling's guest at the Fort Worth Club.
Capstone Lecturer:
In 2004 Dr. Stripling was capstone
lecturer at the Fourth Annual
Biotechnology Conference for Secondary
Science Teachers at Texas A & M-Dallas.
The Lecture, titled "The Age of Cloning: Ethics, Laws & Commerce," featured literary perspectives including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birth-mark." The lecture included
a Lesson Plan and PowerPoint slideshow--available upon request--that derives from Chapter 1, "Technology's Creature," Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature (Greenwood Press, 2005). For complete information on book see Book Chapter link.
Great Hall Lecturer, Nantucket Atheneum: In
2005 Dr. Stripling
was commentator on three films shown during Halloweekend
for the Great Films in the Great Hall Series: James Whale’s 1931 classic “Frankenstein,” Kenneth Branagh’s 1994 “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” and Mel Brook’s 1974 “Young Frankenstein.”
Her Great Hall lecture, titled
"Monster?," capped off the series. Admission
was free with a book signing that
followed. Nantucket Island, MA.
"Monster?": Mary Shelley’s gothic horror novel, Frankenstein (1818), has spawned nearly two centuries of popular culture, including films, plays, television series, comic books, and the Crypt Kicker’s 1962 hit sensation, “The Monster Mash.” Nantucketers who may encounter friendly ghosts and shy ghouls on their evening strolls down foggy lanes near Prospect Hill Cemetery, also celebrate the uniquely American holiday, Halloween, using images of Frankenstein’s scary green monster with bolts in his neck. Nonetheless, over the course of Dr. Stripling’s lecture, “Monster?,” the audience
learned to understand that the Frankenstein mythology that permeates our culture differs greatly from Shelley’s nameless “fiend” who acts more human than his creator does.
Dr. Stripling derived her lecture,
"Monster?," from Chapter 1, “Technology’s Creature,” of
her book, Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature,
showing how Victor Frankenstein’s good intention
to create a disease-free super human species that would bless him
turned into the yellow-eyed monster caught between a need for love and acceptance and revenge,
turning on Frankenstein as he was unleashed
into society. The popular press coined the term, Frankenscience, to describe technology that can run amok. Examples are anthrax attacks, computer hackings, and cloning. Dr. Stripling discussed these and other issues, including the inherent problem in seeking perfection: Who decides? Each of us deals with daily ethical issues in our own way, and Dr. Stripling explained how the popular culture phenomenon, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, sheds light on current brave new world issues. In the end, Frankenstein offers a cautionary rather than an anti-science lesson, asking all of us—not just the scientists, philosophers, and medical ethicists—to understand our twenty-first century science and technology in order to decide where we want them to take us.
PRESENTER (conferences):
ASBH 2001: “Re-creating Richard Selzer: The Ethics of Journal Editing and Life-writing.” With Joanne Trautmann Banks and Iliana Semmler. Nashville, TN.
ASBH 2002: “The New Debate: Groopman v. Kass.” With Jorge Lazareff, Carol Donley, JoAnn Middleton, and Susan Squier. Baltimore, MD.
ASBH 2008: "Richard
Selzer in the Twenty-First Century."
Cleveland, OH. (PP with audio clip of
Leon Kass and video
clip of RS.)
WSSA 2001: "The Diagnostic Embrace" [see link for full text] San Diego, CA.
WSSA 2002: "The Art of Biography I: Richard Selzer, M.D." Albuquerque, NM.
WSSA 2003: "The Art of Biography II: Richard Selzer, M.D." Las Vegas, NV.
PCA/ACA 2005: "The Art of Biography III: Richard Selzer, M.D." San Diego, CA.
NISA 2005: "Writing and Selling Biographies." Moderator. Portland, ORE.
Narrative Matters 2002: "Teaching Medical Humanism with Literature" Fredericton, New
Brunswick, Canada
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities: "Interdisciplinary Teaching: The Humanities in Science Classrooms." (Includes information on education reform and Hawthorne's "The Birth-mark" case study as an example of scientific hubris, derived from Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature, Greenwood P, 2005.) Third Annual. January 15, 2005. Honolulu, Hawaii.
CCTE 2006. Literature and Pedagogy. Panel with Marie Schien,
Pauline R. Griffith, and Evelyn Wilson. "Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Takes Students Out of Their Comfort Zones." Derived from Chapter 4, Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature. Corpus Christi, TX. March 2-4.
[See Curriculum link for entire paper]
CCTE 1995. Conference of College Teachers of English (60th annual meeting). "A Dialogic/Rhetorical Analysis of Richard Selzer's 'Smoking' from Mortal Lessons." March 2-4, 1995. Waco, Texas.
Federation Rhetoric Symposium: "A Dialogic/Rhetorical Perspective on the Life and Writings of Richard Selzer, a Yale-New Haven Doctor-Writer." A cyberspace panel event for the Federation of North Texas Area Universities, a consortium for graduate education sponsored by Texas Woman's University, 1999. Published in Caxton Modern Arts Press, Asynchronous Conference CD, 1999.
AUTHOR:
Imagine a Man: the Surgeon
Storyteller. A literary biography of
Richard Selzer,
in two parts: “reinventing his
life” and
“living by his wits alone.”
[See book chapter link for table of
contents.]
“Teaching
Literature and Medicine: Ken Kesey’s
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Teaching American Literature: A Journal
of Theory and Practice. Vol. 3.1 (Summer 2009):
66-73.
http://www.teachingamericanlit.com
(A paper delivered at CCTE in 2006)
"Indy Times,"
affiliate liaison columnist in The Independent
Scholar, a publication of the
National Coalition of Independent
Scholars. Also series
contributor: "The Art of
Biography: Overview and Getting Started"
[Part I Summer 2007]; "The Art of
Biography: Focus and Foreword" [Part II
Fall 2007]; "The Art of Biography: The
Interview" [Part III Winter 2007]; "The
Art of Biography: Authorial Tone"
[Part IV Spring 2008]; "The Art of
Biography: Love Letters [Part V Summer
2009]; and "The Art of Biography: The
End Game Strategy--Design Matters & The
Author-Publisher Partnership [Part VI
Fall 2009].
Articles published in
The Journal of Medical Humanities, Medical Humanities Review, Composition Studies, Studies in Psychological Theory, Praxis Press, Bulletin of Bibliography, Readerly/Writerly Text, Federation Rhetoric Symposium (asynchronous conference CD), and JAC: A Journal of Composition (collaborative work).
See Publications.
Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature (Greenwood Press, 2005), a book designed to meet a range of needs, from high school students and teachers and pre-med and other college students throughout medical school and post-graduate training, as well as any one in or entering a health care profession. The general reader, as well, will be informed on hot topic medical issues and will be entertained while reading a blend of the literary and medical ideal in literature. The book will also be a valuable addition to high school, academic, and public libraries, as it discusses literature as a means of approaching medical and bioethical issues. See Publications and Book Chapter links for fuller details, including Table of Contents and book reviews. Book categories include Literary Criticism (19th and 20th century literature), Literature and Medicine (Medical Humanities), and Medicine in Literature.
BIOETHICS AND MEDICAL ISSUES IN LITERATURE
GREENWOOD PRESS, APRIL 2005
To preview and order: http://greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=GR2040
or; http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-4207710-7162408
Book Code: GR2040
ISBN: 0-313-32040-3
Books in Progress:
Richard Selzer: A Biography. [See publications]
Richard Selzer (b. 1928): A Bio-Bibliography Description: Richard Selzer is one of the twenty-first century's best-known doctor-writers whose published work since 1968 has nurtured many generations of medical professionals and received, as well, critical acclaim for its sheer literary quality. This volume of chronologically arranged annotated works by Selzer includes over 200 primary entries (Primary Works; Contributions to Periodicals, Books, and Newspapers; and Video and Audio Series; and there are over 350 entries in its Secondary Works (Dissertations/Theses; Interviews; Journal Articles; Newspaper Articles; Books, Sections of Books; Anthologies; Conferences Papers, University Lectures, Symposia; and Book Reviews). Furthermore, there is a full description of the Richard Selzer Archive at the University of Texas at Galveston (Est. January 1, 1998). The bio-bibliography will be a valuable reference to scholars in the medical humanities and in American Literature.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Abbreviations
Chronology
Annotated Bibliography
Index of Works
Index of Personal Names
Subject Category: Medical Humanities
Sub-Category: American Literature
Richard Selzer: Conversations (Lectures, Letters, and Literature)
A Companion to Richard Selzer’s Case Narrations, Short Stories, and Essays.
EDUCATOR: Tarrant County College-South (1998 to 2003)--developed innovative Medical Humanities curricula. Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2000.
Editor: Composition Studies, Studies in Psychological Theory, and Descant (1996 to 1999)
Writing Center Specialist: Texas Christian University (1996 to 1997)
Member: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH); Freelance Writers Network, Fort Worth, TX;
National Coalition of Independent Scholars (NCIS [Board Member 2005-7]); North Texas Biomedical Ethics Network.
CME-accredited attendance:
Selzer, Richard. "The Whistlers' Room." Stanford Medical School. 2002
The Doctor Stories. Readers Theater. U-Col Denver. 11 October 2003.
Selzer, Richard. "The Doctor as Writer." UT-SWMC 9 Nov. 2003.
Selzer, Richard. "Parable." UNT-HSC. 10 Nov. 2003
Isch, David. "Dreams and Anguish: Medical, Ethical and Legal Management at the Threshold of Viability of life." Harris Methodist Fort Worth. 30 November 2004.
Isch, David. "Taking it to the next Level: The Role of Ethics in Healthcare." Harris Methodist Fort Worth. 4 Feb. 2005.
Foster, Daniel. "Ethics of Enhancement." UT-SWMC Ethics Grand Rounds. 1 March 2005.
U.S. Deputy Surgeon
General Kenneth P. Moritsugu, M.D.,
"Current State of Affairs in Organ
Donation and Transplantation," sponsored
by Harris Methodist Fort Worth, 4 April,
2006.
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