About Dr. Stripling
Dr. Stripling, an independent scholar in
Fort Worth, TX,
draws from a rhetoric, literature, and
law background to lecture and to write
about the humanities
and medicine. She also develops
curricula for
English/Humanities, 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, researching in
Selzer Archive, Rare Book Room, Blocker
History of Medicine Collection, Moody Medical Library.
Rosenberg House guest & library research
in 2000 & 1998.
2009—The Yaddo
Corporation,
Saratoga Springs, NY.
Residential writer staying in Spencer's
Den (second floor mansion). Research
Richard Selzer's 20-year experience at
Yaddo, outline part II of the biography,
and take photos.
LECTURES:
2005—Great
Hall Lecturer, Atheneum, Nantucket
Island, MA. After
commenting on three Frankenstein films
shown during Halloweekend, Dr.
Stripling's lecture, "Monster?," capped
off the Great Films in the Great Hall
Series. Derived from Chapter 1,
“Technology’s Creature,” of Bioethics
and Medical Issues in Literature,
Stripling asks, who is the real monster
in Shelley’s Frankenstein?
Victor Frankenstein’s good intention
to create a disease-free super human
species that would bless him, turned
deadly when his creature was caught between a need for
love and acceptance and revenge.
Frankenstein is cautionary,
rather than anti-science, and asks us to understand our
21st century science and
technology so we can decide where we
want them to take us.
2004—Capstone
Lecturer.
Fourth Annual Biotechnology Conference
for Secondary Science Teachers, Texas A
& M-Dallas.
"The Age of Cloning: Ethics, Laws &
Commerce," draws from Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein and Nathaniel
Hawthorne's "The Birth-mark,"
including a Lesson Plan and PowerPoint slideshow.
Derived from Chapter 1, "Technology's
Creature," Bioethics and Medical
Issues in Literature (Greenwood
Press, 2005).
2003—Selzer
as Visiting Lecturer. Dr.
Stripling coordinated bringing Dr.
Richard Selzer to the Dallas-Fort Worth
Metroplex where he lectured at the
University of Texas-Southwestern Medical
Center, the University of North
Texas-Health Science Center, and Texas
Christian University.
2002—Commentator,
Stanford Medical School, on Selzer's
lecture, "The Doctor as Writer";
introduce him at the medical school.
2000—Tarrant
County College District Faculty Retreat
lecture:
"An Introduction to Richard Selzer
and his Major Writings."
1999—
The University of Central Arkansas at
Conway High Table Honor’s College
Lecture Series. "The Doctor Stories:
Medicine, Rhetoric, and Social Taboo."
1998—
Yale Medical School Program for
Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series.
"Richard Selzer: Poet of the Body."
1998—
Texas Wesleyan University Humanic’s
Pre-Professional Lecture Series and
Ethics Panel. "The Helping
Professions: the Power of the Positions
and their Attendant Responsibilities.”
Follow-up pre-professional brown bags in
2000 and 2001.
1998—
The University of Texas Medical
Branch-Galveston brown bag lecture
series. "Richard Selzer: the Pen and
the Scalpel."
Go to
Lectures
for descriptions.
PRESENTATIONS
(conferences):
2008—American Society for
Bioethics and Humanities. "Richard Selzer in the Twenty-First Century." Cleveland, OH.
(audio clip of Leon Kass; video clip of
RS.)
2006—Conference of College
Teachers of English.
Literature and Pedagogy panel. "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.
2005—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.) Honolulu, Hawaii.
2005—Northwest Independent
Scholars Association.
"Writing and Selling Biographies." Moderator. Portland, ORE.
2005—Popular Culture
Association/American Culture
Association.
"The Art of Biography III: Richard Selzer, M.D." San Diego,
CA.
2003—Western Social Science
Association.
"The Art of Biography II: Richard
Selzer, M.D." Las Vegas, NV.
2002—Western Social Science
Association.
"The Art of Biography I: Richard Selzer,
M.D." Albuquerque, NM.
2002—American Society for
Bioethics and Humanities.
“The New Debate: Groopman v. Kass.” Panel with Jorge
Lazareff, Carol Donley, JoAnn Middleton,
and Susan Squier. Baltimore, MD.
2002—Narrative Matters.
"Teaching Medical
Humanism with Literature." Fredericton,
New Brunswick, Canada.
2001—American Society for
Bioethics and Humanities.
“Re-creating Richard Selzer: The Ethics
of Journal Editing and Life-writing.”
Panel with Joanne Trautmann Banks and
Iliana Semmler. Nashville, TN.
2001—Western Social Science
Association.
"The Diagnostic Embrace." San Diego, CA.
See the oral presentation:
“The
Diagnostic Embrace”
1999—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.
1995—Conference of College
Teachers of English.
"A Dialogic/Rhetorical Analysis of
Richard Selzer's 'Smoking' from Mortal
Lessons." Waco, Texas.
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 and excerpted for
a shorter presentation by Dr. Stripling
who directed, 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,” as
adapted by Greg Watkins (Medical
Readers’ Theater, ed. Todd L.
Savitt). Presented by Dr. Stripling with
faculty readers for the district-wide
Teachers’ Workshop at Tarrant County
College District.
AUTHOR:
See
Publications
EDUCATOR:
1998-2002—Adjunct Instructor. Tarrant County
College-South. Developed innovative Medical Humanities curricula. Who’s
Who Among America’s Teachers, 2000.
See:
Medical Humanities Curricula,
Student Papers, and
What the Students Say.
1996-1997—Writing Center Specialist.
Texas Christian University.
Graduate Assistant.
EDITOR:
1996-1999—Composition Studies,
Studies in Psychological Theory,
and Descant. |
