Elly Teman

Elly Teman is a cultural and medical anthropologist who specializes in the Anthropology of Reproduction. Her recent co-authored graphic novel with Zsuzsa Berend, A Tale of Two Surrogates: A Graphic Narrative of Assisted Reproduction, is based on decades of ethnographic research on gestational surrogacy. It is part of the Graphic Medicine series at Penn State University Press, with art by Italian comic artist Andrea Scebba. Elly's first book, Birthing a Mother: the Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self, has received book awards in three categories from the American Anthropological Association. These awards include the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology, the Diana Forsythe Prize for best feminist ethnography of technology and/or biomedicine from SAW/CASTAC/GAD and the Stirling Prize from the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Elly's research interests include the anthropology of reproduction, medical anthropology, and Jewish Folklore.