Amanda Cannella

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Comic Studies; Writing and Literary Experimentation; Critical Disability Studies; Graphic Medicine; Health Humanities; Narrative Medicine; Arts, Literature, and Society; Writing and Fine Arts; Research-Creation; Autoethnography; Biomedical Rhetoric; Bureaucracy; and Affect Theory.

CURRENT RESEARCH:
Amanda Cannella is a Ph.D student, artist, and writer. Her work has appeared in Modern Fuel, RAW, and invisibilities zine. She is a member of the Disability Justice & Crip Culture Collaboratory at Carleton University. Her research contributions include a thesis and graphic memoir written about the subjective experience of illness as it compares to the clinical experience.

AWARDS:
– Beattie-Haines Graduate Scholarship, Carleton University (2022)
– Gordon J. Wood Graduate Scholarship, Carleton University (2022)
– Trent University Public Texts Graduate Prize, Trent University (2022)
– Roebuck Street Mural Artist Honorarium, Town of Whitby (2022)
– Curriculum of Merit Award in Visual Art, Queen’s University (2010)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
– Research Assistant (for Lisa Boucher, Department of Gender & Social Justice), “Promising Outcomes in Troubling Times: Neoliberal Restructuring and Organizational Resilience,” SSHRC Project, Trent University
– Workshop Facilitator (for Nicole Dalmer, Postdoctoral Fellow), “Learning About Your Digital Rights in the Digital Age: A Hands-on Workshop Series for Older Adults in Peterborough,” SSHRC Project, Trent University

SERVICE:
– Member, Disability Justice & Crip Culture Collaboratory, Carleton University (2022-Present)
– Member, Osteoporosis Under Forty Support Group, Canada (2020-Present)
– Co-Chair, InvisAbilities, Queen’s University (2015-2016)
– Executive Committee, InvisAbilities, Queen’s University (2013-2015)