Steering Group

A small core Steering Group is presently responsible for the oversight and development of the project. It is anticipated that the Steering Group will expand in light of the conference conversations and dialogues.

Members

• Gonzalo Araoz
  Project Leader, Madness, Inter-Disciplinary.Net and
  Research Fellow, Centre for Health Research and Practice Development, Faculty of Health, Medical Sciences and Social Care, Universityof Cumbria, Lancaster, United Kingdom and
  Transatlantic Research Network on Mental Health and the Arts (TRAMHA, www.tramha.org)

• Allan Beattie
  Cumbria University, United Kingdom
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• William Davis
  is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, USA.
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• Rob Fisher
  Network Founder and Network Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
  is interested in the relationship between madness and creativity
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• Katrina Jaworski
  University of South Australia, Adelaide South Australia, Australia
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• John O’Neill
  Mary Immacluate College, Limerick, Ireland
  is interested in the representations of madness in the early modern press of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, principally concerning how the press used madness to support or oppose the dominant ideologies of a particular time period. Also researching the differences between popular, every-day press depictions of the mad in comparison to the prevailing official (government) and medical assumptions regarding mental deficiencies.
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• Johnathan Sunley
  is qualifying to work as a psychodynamic counsellor and has a particular interest in the conceptualization and treatment of mental disorder’
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• Katarzyna Szmigiero
  is an Assistant Professor at the English Department of University of Jan Kochanowski in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland and Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz, Poland.
  Her research interests concentrate on cultural representations of psychiatry and mental illness as well as writing as a form of therapy.
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• Maria Vaccerella
  Hub Leader (MSO), Inter-Disciplinary.Net
  Marie-Curie Research Fellow, King’s College, London

We anticipate adding further members to the Steering Group after each meeting of the project.