Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
New York University School of Medicine
New York, New York
Editor Since 1993
Felice Aull founded the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database in 1993. She retired as editor in chief on January 1, 2011 and is now editor emerita. From 1966 to 2008 she was a fulltime faculty member in the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience at New York University School of Medicine. Her Ph.D. is in basic medical sciences (specializing in physiology) from Cornell University's medical college. She began to discuss fiction and poetry with pre-medical and medical students at NYU in the late 1980s and in May, 2001 she was awarded the M.A. from New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where she studied in the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought. She taught electives and seminars in medical humanities, is an associate editor of the journal, Literature and Medicine and is on the editorial board of The Bellevue Literary Review. Her research and teaching interests include borderland and exile states and narratives, disabiltiy theory and narratives, and the work of physician writers. She has poems published in Margie, Poet Lore, Ekphrasis, Umbrella, and elsewhere. One of her poems is anthologized in Letters to the World (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poetry chapbook collection, The Music Behind Me, was published in October, 2012.
Editor’s Choices
The Case of the Red Leg by Atul Gawande
Lucille Clifton's poetry by Lucille Clifton
Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer by Robert Pope
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest directed by Milos Forman
Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing by G. Thomas Couser