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Lindsey Grubbs, PhD, serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics at the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University. Previously, she held a faculty position at California State University, East Bay, and was a Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Berman Institute of Bioethics.
Her educational background includes:
- PhD in English with Bioethics Certificate, Emory University (2019)
- MA in English with Gender Studies Minor, University of Wyoming (2013)
- BA in English with Russian and Creative Writing Minors, University of Wyoming (2010)
Dr. Grubbs' research examines how narrative shapes diagnosis, treatment, and social acceptance of controversial illnesses across psychiatry and neuroscience. Working at the intersection of literary analysis and bioethics, she investigates psychological, neurological, and autoimmune conditions through critical health humanities—a framework that integrates disability studies, gender studies, and ethnic studies to address conceptual challenges at medicine's boundaries.
Her scientific recognition includes:
- Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellowship
Research funding has been secured from:
- Library Company of Philadelphia
- American Antiquarian Society
- College of Physicians and Surgeons of Philadelphia
Dr. Grubbs has edited "Under That Calamity" (John Perceval's 1838 asylum memoir) and published in Literature & Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities, and American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience, demonstrating consistent focus on narrative ethics in contested medical domains.
