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The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) is an informal working group of graduate and professional students (along with faculty, librarians, and a few undergrads) who meet monthly to talk about all things related to the intersections of literature, medicine, and culture. Although the vast majority of our members are part of the UNC community, we are also open to meaningful participation from members of other universities, colleges, or other institutions.

In the past, we’ve met to workshop conference papers or other works-in-progress, discuss shared readings, and review journal articles. LMCC is a growing, energized organization for grad students in English and beyond. Drawing on a diverse array of personal and disciplinary perspectives, LMCC participants explore health and medical narratives, popular and professional health discourses, and other topics in the health humanities.

For more information, explore this site including notes on past meetings, upcoming events, and useful resources.

To join our email list, please contact one of our Co-Directors: 

• Co-Director, Rachel Warner (warnerr@live.unc.edu)
• Co-Director, Paul Blom (paulblom@live.unc.edu)

Note: As of March 1, 2023, website visitors will no longer be able to subscribe by email to our website posts, updates, etc. Current subscribers will no longer receive emails automatically when we publish an update to our site. If you are currently subscribed to our website, be sure to contact one of the Co-Directors to confirm that you are also on the separate email list we maintain so that you continue to receive regular updates from us, which we will send out manually. To stay up to date, you can also follow us on Twitter or Instagram!

RECENT POSTS:

April 2023 Meeting: Zilcosky’s The Language of Trauma (continued)

Our April LMCC meeting (and our final meeting of the semester) took place on Wednesday, April 26 at 5:30pm in Greenlaw 225 and via Zoom. We continued our March discussion of John Zilcosky’s 2021 monograph, The Language of Trauma: War … Continued

April 2023 Meeting Announcement

The next meeting for the Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) will take place on Wednesday, April 26 at 5:30pm est. Because the HHIVE Lab is being renovated, the rest of our meetings this semester will be held in the … Continued

March 2023 Meeting: Zilcosky’s The Language of Trauma

Our March LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, March 29 at 5:30pm in Greenlaw 509 (temporarily relocated from Greenlaw 225) and via Zoom. We discussed John Zilcosky’s 2021 monograph, The Language of Trauma: War and Technology in Hoffman, Freud, and … Continued

March 2023 Meeting Announcement

The next meeting for the Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) will take place on Wednesday, March 29 at 5:30pm est. Because the HHIVE Lab is being renovated, the rest of our meetings this semester will be held in the … Continued