Amanda Mordavsky Caleb

Amanda M. Caleb is professor of medical humanities at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, having previously served as founding director and professor of Medical and Health Humanities and professor of English at Misericordia University. She holds a PhD in English and an MA in nineteenth-century studies from The University of Sheffield, an MPH from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a BA in English from Davidson College. Her research interests include the medical and public health humanities, health communication, health narratology, narrative medicine, and bioethics and the Holocaust. She has published articles and book chapters on topics ranging from the medicalization of social policies to the rhetoric of pandemics, to the marginalization of people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, to dementia and the role of narrative medicine. She serves as the membership chair for the Health Humanities Consortium, is a steering committee member for the Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust for the International Chair in Bioethics (World Medical Association Cooperation Centre) and is an educational consultant for the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics, and the Holocaust (MIMEH) and the College Athletes for Respect and Equality Initiative (CARE). Dr. Caleb was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to revise Misericordia’s Medical and Health Humanities curriculum; as part of second NEH grant, she developed two public health humanities projects: a YouTube lecture series, "COVID-19 and the Humanities," and a podcast, "The Health Humanist."