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Lisa Diedrich is Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, with additional affiliations in the Department of Philosophy and the PhD concentration in Disability Studies within the School of Health Technology and Management. Her work bridges critical medical studies, disability studies, and feminist science studies through interdisciplinary methodologies.
- Key research areas: Critical health studies, graphic medicine, feminist pedagogies
- Major publications: Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism (2025), Indirect Action (2016), Treatments (2007)
- Teaches courses connecting illness narratives to social justice, queer theory, and medical humanities
Her recent work examines how social media hashtags like #TimeForUnrest reshape illness politics, while earlier scholarship traces indirect activism models through AIDS, schizophrenia, and environmental justice movements. She challenges origin narratives of health activism, emphasizing pre-ACT UP histories and transversal connections between movements.
Selected peer-reviewed contributions include analyses of graphic medicine, trauma representation, and interdisciplinary approaches to illness narratives. She advocates for therapeutic social spaces and an "ethics of failure" in critical medical discourse.
