FACULTY

Two faculty members teach the three-hour morning workshop.  In addition, we each have fifteen individual sessions scheduled over five days, so there is time for all retreat participants to schedule one 50-minute afternoon session with each of us.  We also hang around for casual conversation, shared meals, and, occasionally, dancing.

FACULTY 2009   

Julie Reichert, PhD, is a writer of creative non-fiction, stories, poems, and the immortal screen classic Breakin' 2 is Electric Boogaloo. She teaches writing for medical school students, residents, and faculty at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and has created numerous writing workshops for medical practitioners and people living with illness.  Recently, she has been writing, directing, and producing short narrative films. 

Daniel Becker, MD, practices and teaches internal medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where he also directs the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, edits the on-line literary journal Hospital Drive, and encourages colleagues and students to recognize and nurture their muse. He is the author of two poetry collections, the chapbook Chance (2006) and the forthcoming Proof .

ASSOCIATED FACULTY

David B. Morris, PhD, (founding co-director, faculty 2000, 2001, 2003-2006) has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His books include The Culture of Pain (1991), Earth Warrior (1995), and Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age (1998). He is University Professor at the University of Virginia.

Thomas R. Cole, PhD, (faculty 2002, 2007) is Director of the McGovern Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit at the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center.  His books include The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America (1992, and 'You Never Knew What Powers Lay Within you': Notes of an Aging Medical Humanist (2007).  He is Creator and Executive Producer of the documentary films Life Stories, Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy, and Life After Stroke: Conversations with Couples.

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