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Amanda Cannella is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She holds an M.A. from Trent University and a B.A. from Queen’s University. Her research focuses on graphic medicine, chronic illness narratives, and biomedical critique, contesting dominant representations of pain and care in clinical contexts. She has co-developed creative and scholarly work analyzing graphic illness narratives as technologies of biomedicine.
Education:
- M.A., Trent University
- B.A., Queen’s University
Research Interests:
Cannella’s work bridges autoethnography, disability theory, and graphic literature. She explores how chronic pain and illness narratives challenge biomedical frameworks through creative and critical lenses. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates rhetoric analysis, pedagogy, and crip futurities.
Awards:
- Beattie-Haines Graduate Scholarship (2022)
- Gordon J. Wood Graduate Scholarship (2022)
- Trent University Public Texts Prize (2022)
Teaching & Advising:
Co-instructor for ENGL2900: Literature of the Self (Carleton University, Fall 2024). Her teaching emphasizes health humanities and narrative medicine.
Service & Leadership:
- Co-Founder of Carleton Book Arts Society (2023)
- Vice President Finance, Carleton Book Arts Society (2023–2024)
- Co-Chair, Research Committee, Disability Justice and Crip Culture Collaboratory (2023–2024)
Research Experience:
- SSHRC Research Assistant under Lisa Boucher (Trent University)
- Workshop Facilitator for Nicole Dalmer’s SSHRC Project (Trent University)
