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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
\n<\/strong>autoethnography; autotheory; biomedicalization; biopolitics; the body; care politics; comics; chronic illness; chronic pain; creative nonfiction; disability theory; drawn dissertations; ethics; graphic literature; graphic medicine; health humanities; illness narratives; pedagogy; sick lit; rhetoric analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CURRENT RESEARCH:<\/strong>
\nMy doctoral research analyzes graphic illness narratives and narrative medical models as unwitting technologies of biomedicine. My body of scholarly-creative work takes as its subject matter the experience of chronic pain, and in so doing, it contests the biomedical representation and clinical \u201ccare\u201d of those who are in pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUBLICATIONS:<\/strong>
\n\u2013 \u201cThe Patient\u2019s Game.\u201d Health Professions and Comics: An Interprofessional Guide to Graphic Medicine<\/em>. With Gianna Paniagua. Edited by Brian Callender and Kathryn West, Penn State UP, forthcoming.  <\/strong>
\n\u2013 \u201cMoments of Metagnosis: Illness Narratives in Contemporary Pathographic Memoirs.\u201d Comics and Life: Illustration, Intersections, and Insights<\/em>. Edited by Abhilasha Gusain, Routledge, forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONFERENCES: <\/strong>
\n– \u201cPractically Magic: Playing Through the Pain in the Third Space.\u201d Graphic Medicine Conference<\/em>, Athlone, Ireland, 16\u201318 July 2024.
\n– \u201cThe Neglected Curriculum of Chronic Pain: Illness Narratives as Graphic Media.\u201d Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English<\/em>, York University, Toronto, ON. May 2023.
\n– \u201cEcocriticism and Graphic Medicine Prioritizing Crip Futurities.\u201d Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English<\/em>, McGill University, Montreal, QC. June 2024. (Conference cancelled)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
\n<\/strong>– Research Assistant (for Lisa Boucher, Department of Gender & Social Justice), \u201cPromising Outcomes in Troubling Times: Neoliberal Restructuring and Organizational Resilience,\u201d SSHRC Project, Trent University
\n– Workshop Facilitator (for Nicole Dalmer, Postdoctoral Fellow), \u201cLearning About Your Digital Rights in the Digital Age: A Hands-on Workshop Series for Older Adults in Peterborough,\u201d SSHRC Project, Trent University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
\n<\/strong>– Co-instructor, ENGL2900 Literature of the Self: Illness Narratives. Carleton University, with Dr. Stuart J. Murray. Fall 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SERVICE<\/strong>:
\n– Co-Founder, Carleton Book Arts Society, Carleton University, 2023
\nSocial Media Co-Ordinator, 2024-2025
\nVice President Finance, 2023-2024
\n– Student Member, Disability Justice and Crip Culture Collaboratory, Carleton University
\nCo-Chair, Research Committee 2023-2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AWARDS:
\n<\/strong>– Beattie-Haines Graduate Scholarship, Carleton University (2022)
\n– Gordon J. Wood Graduate Scholarship, Carleton University (2022)
\n– Trent University Public Texts Graduate Prize, Trent University (2022)
\n– Roebuck Street Mural Artist Honorarium, Town of Whitby (2022)
\n– Curriculum of Merit Award in Visual Art, Queen\u2019s University (2010)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22237,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Amanda","cu_people_last_name":"Cannella","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[27],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-22231","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-phd-students"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"M.A. (Trent University), B.A. (Queen\u2019s University) ","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/22231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/22231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25464,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/22231\/revisions\/25464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=22231"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=22231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}