jenell johnson http://www.jenelljohnson.com assistant professor | department of communication arts | university of wisconsin madison Tue, 07 May 2013 16:32:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.jenelljohnson.com/hello-world/ http://www.jenelljohnson.com/hello-world/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:09:55 +0000 admin http://www.jenelljohnson.com/?p=1 Continue reading →]]> My research explores the rhetorical traffic between science, biomedicine and the broader culture from which it emerges. I work equally in the rhetoric of science and the rhetoric of medicine, and my perspective is deeply inflected by the field of disability studies, which contributes social, ethical, and political implications to the questions I ask about the human body and mind. Mostly, I research brains. With Melissa Littlefield, I have been conducting research on the emergence of neuro-disciplines (such as neuro-anthropology and neuro-aesthetics). We have recently published an essay collection on the topic entitled The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain. I have also completed a book manuscript provisionally entitled American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History. This project investigates how representations of lobotomy in American popular culture contributed to its development and decline in American medicine. You can read more about it here.

When not reading or writing, I’m usually playing with my dog, cooking some tasty Midwestern cuisine, hanging out with my partner Mike, listening to music, or all of the above.

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