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Lisa Diedrich
Professor
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2050 Humanities Building
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Academic website: https://lisadiedrich.org
Research Interests
Critical medical studies, disability studies, feminist theories, interdisciplinary
methods.
Biography
Lisa Diedrich received her PhD in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory
University in 2001. Since then she has taught in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
at Stony Brook. Her research and teaching interests include critical medical studies,
disability studies, feminist science studies, and interdisciplinary feminist and queer
theories and methodologies. She is the author of Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism (Minnesota, 2016) and Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness (Minnesota, 2007). She is also editor (with Victoria Hesford) of the collection Feminist Time Against Nation Time: Gender, Politics, and the Nation-State in an Age
of Permanent War (Lexington, 2008) and a special issue of Feminist Theory "Experience, Echo, Event: Theorising Feminist Histories, Historicising Feminist
Theory" (August 2014). She is affiliated faculty in the Department of Philosophy and
with the PhD concentration in Disability Studies in the School of Health Technology
and Management.
New York Times Op-Ed, "Mysterious Sounds and Scary Illnesses as Political Tools" (with
Benjamin Tausig)
Lisa Diedrich was recently interviewed by Full-Stop.net on illness politics and health activism of the past and present - read the full interview
here.
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