In this episode, Prof Ian Sabroe and Dr Dieter Declercq talk with Dr Esther L Jones about her important work at the intersection of medical humanities, black speculative fiction, and gender.
Dr Esther L Jones is Associate Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Clark University, where she is a professor in the department of English and the E Franklin Frazier Chair of African American Literature, Theory and Culture. Her research and teaching specializations include black women’s health and medical ethics as represented in literature. She is the author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), and the editor-in-chief for “Global Critical Health Humanities: Race and Ethnicity” a reference text with Palgrave MacMillan.
