UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Juliet McMullin and Brian Callender have joined Susan Merrill Squier as series editors for Penn State University Press’ Graphic Medicine series, which was founded in 2015 by Squier and Ian Williams. The series, which has previously included a mix of scholarly and general interest books, will now focus on scholarly monographs and edited collections by researchers in the health humanities, activists, and medical practitioners analyzing the ways in which comics address the scaled meanings of health.
Squier is Brill Professor Emerita of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State. She is a co-author of the Eisner-nominated book "Graphic Medicine Manifesto" and an Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin.
McMullin is the author of "The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawaiian Health" and co-editor of the School of Advanced Research volume "Confronting Cancer: Metaphors, Advocacy, and Anthropology." She is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside and the co-director of the Center for Health Disparities Research.
Callender is associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and the author of numerous published articles on graphic narrative in medicine, ethics and global health education.
Books in the Graphic Medicine series reflect the value of comics as a resource for communicating about medicine and health. They have received praise and scholarly citation from venues such as The New York Times, Science, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Health Affairs, Medical Humanities, AU Magazine, HIV Plus, the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, the Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, The Lancet, and NPR. Click here to learn more about the series.