Lisa Diedrich is professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. Her research and teaching interests are in critical illness and disability studies, feminist science studies, critical pedagogies, and graphic medicine.
Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine edited by me and Bri Martino coming in early 2026 from Penn State University Press. Check out the cover with art by Ian Williams. >>>>
Publications
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism (2024),
University of Minnesota Press. Forerunner Ideas First Series.
Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism (2016), University of Minnesota Press.
Feminist Time Against Nation Time (2009), Lexington Books. Co-edited with Victoria Hesford.
Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness (2007), University of Minnesota Press.
“My research participates in the emergent interdisciplinary field of critical medical or health studies, which seeks to encourage the cross-fertilization of theories and methods from the social sciences, humanities, and interdisciplinary fields, such as women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, science studies, and disability studies, into medical and health thought and practice.”
Lisa teaches at the Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies Department at Stony Brook University. Her classes cover themes of critical medical studies, disability studies, feminist science studies, and interdisciplinary feminist and queer theories and methodologies.
