Our Faculty

Academic and Administrative Appointments

Associate Professor of American Studies and Humanities

Education

BA, Brown University
MA, University of Texas at Austin
PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Areas of Teaching

Literature and medicine
Postwar American culture
American Literature

Scholarly Interests

Genre studies
Physician writers
Medical humanities

Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters

Tanner, D.E. (2003). Literature and Liberalization in Healthcare Education. Journal of Arts and Sciences in Career and Experiential Education 2, 27-31.

Tanner, D.E. (2000). Narrative, Ethics, and Human Experimentation in Richard Selzerrs Alexis St. Martinn: The Miraculous Wound Re-examined. HEC Forum 12, 149-160.

Tanner, D.E. (1999). The Narrative Imperative: Stories in Medicine, Illness, and Bioethics. HEC Forum 11, 155-169.

Book Review:
Tanner, D.E. (2005). Review of Curtis Marez. Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics, in Journal of Popular Culture, 38(5) 984-986.

Honors

 

Current Professional Memberships, Service & Leadership

American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM)
American Culture Association (ACA)
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH)
American Studies Association (ASA)

Personal Interests

Bullmastiffs
Landscape and gardening
Squash and tennis