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SUMMARY:Author Series: Body\, Soul\, and Comics
DESCRIPTION:Join Countway Library and the MCPHS Center for Health 
 Humanities for the official launch of  A. David Lewis' newest book\, Body\, 
 Soul\, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic Medicine! Q&A\, book 
 sales\, and book signing to follow. Light refreshments will be provided. 
 \n\nBriana Martino\, Chair of Department of Communications\, Simmons 
 University and co-editor of Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine will 
 serve as moderator for the discussion.\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nAn 
 exploration of how comics illuminate medicine\, religion\, and 
 identity\n\n\n\nBody\, Soul\, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic 
 Medicine follows A. David Lewis's unique scholarly journey through graphic 
 religion and graphic medicine\, exploring how comics intersect with 
 healthcare\, clinical practice\, spirituality\, patient experience\, and 
 belief. Drawing on more than two decades of academic research\, Lewis 
 reframes both fields through the distinct narrative and visual language of 
 comics.\n\nThough often seen as opposites—spiritual versus 
 scientific—religion and medicine share concerns with selfhood\, 
 community\, personal well-being\, and transformation. Through comics\, 
 Lewis reveals these shared concerns and examines how selfhood\, identity\, 
 and embodiment emerge through visual storytelling.\n\nBlending scholarship 
 with autobiography\, Lewis weaves personal moments—a religious 
 conversion\, experiences with anxiety\, and academic work within a 
 healthcare setting—into a broader analysis of representation and meaning 
 in comic books. His account resists the traditional divide between theory 
 and lived experience\, grounding abstract ideas in the personal and the 
 visual.\n\nAbout the Author \n\nA. David Lewis is an associate professor of 
 English and health humanities at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and 
 Health Sciences (MCPHS) and the author of Body\, Soul & Comics (May 15\, 
 University of Mississippi Press). An Eisner Award nominee and judge\, he is 
 also the coeditor of Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Novels and 
 Muslim Superheroes: Comics\, Islam\, and Representation.\n\nA founder of 
 library collections at both Boston University and MCPHS\, Lewis's teaching 
 and research focus on representations of cancer and loneliness in comic 
 books and graphic novels. He is the inaugural coeditor of Graphic Medicine 
 Review and the acclaimed author of comics including The Lone and Level 
 Sands and the centennial comics adaptation of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.
LOCATION:Countway Floor 1: Room 103\, Harvard Longwood Campus
ORGANIZER;CN="Yasmina Kamal":MAILTO:Yasmina_kamal@hms.harvard.edu
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CONTACT;CN="Yasmina Kamal":MAILTO:Yasmina_kamal@hms.harvard.edu
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