The January 2026 meeting of UNC’s Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) took place on Wed. Jan. 28 on Zoom. 
Our February meeting will also take place strictly via our usual Zoom link. (We plan to return to the HHIVE Lab in March and April, with options for people to join via Zoom in real time as well.)
For our January meeting, we discussed a variety of works-in-progress from Dr. Claire Seiler, Professor of English at Dickinson College and visiting National Humanities Center Fellow. We read her work and met with her as a group to discuss her works-in-progress and gain valuable insight both on the topics at hand and regarding how to transform individual essays or papers into larger scholarly endeavors. Specifically, we discussed the following:
- “The Toledo Society for Crippled Children,” a potential preface to her book-in-progress
- “Diagnosing Polio, 1912,” a short seminar paper Seiler presented at the Modernist Studies Association conference this past October and which might inform her ongoing book project
- Seiler, Claire. “J. G. Farrell’s Lost Polio Novel.” PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, no. 5, vol. 139, Oct. 2024, pp. 821-836. Scopus, doi:10.1632/S0030812924000713.
If you missed the meeting, you can still access the texts on the Readings page of this site!
- Because our discussion for this particular meeting focused on works-in-progress, we have chosen not to post Dr. Seiler’s works publicly to the LMCC site. Instead, we emailed a copy of these works-in-progress to our current LMCC members/people on our listserv.
- To request copies, please email the LMCC Co-Directors (see our email addresses on the Home page of this site).
- If you receive a copy of these works-in-progress, please do not share or post your copy without permission from the author, Dr. Claire Seiler.
Although we normally include meeting notes in posts like this, we won’t include them here publicly since we were discussing works-in-progress. You can, however, access the recording of our meeting here!
This was our first meeting for the spring 2026 semester! All of our meetings for spring 2026 will take place at 5:30pm eastern time on the last Wednesday of each month. Again, our January meeting took place strictly over Zoom, as will our February meeting, using our usual Zoom link. We plan to return to the HHIVE Lab in March and April, with options for people to join via Zoom in real time as well.
We’ll be posting more information about our February meeting sometime soon!
A few reminders and announcements:
- Be sure to follow LMCC on Twitter and Instagram to show your support and receive regular updates!
- If you want to get more involved with LMCC, please send us other resources we should post to the site or suggestions for improvements, additions, future readings, etc. We’d love to hear your ideas and input! (See our email addresses on the Home page of this site.)
- Also, please feel free to spread the word about LMCC to other interested graduate or professional students at UNC.
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Note: The Featured Image for this post is a cropped image of the first page of Dr. Seiler’s 2024 article published in PMLA.