Upcoming Event: Teaching Mental Health Humanities

This session invites you to share and reflect upon varying practices of teaching mental health humanities. As interest in mental health humanities rises, and the vital nature of attention to mental health within the humanities becomes increasingly apparent, how we teach these issues requires critical and creative reflection. This session provides prompts from a range of educators across different fields regarding their own ways of teaching mental health humanities. We wish to provide a space for learning, sharing and exploring different pedagogical practices and in doing so build a community of practice for teaching mental health humanities.

We are joined by the following speakers who will share their experiences:

Dr Jennifer Wallis is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities, and Teaching Fellow in History of Science and Medicine, at Imperial College London. Her publications include Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices (2017), the co-authored volume Anxious Times: Medicine & Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2019), and co-edited volumes Sources in the History of Psychiatry from 1800 to the Present (2022) and Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective: Faith in Reform (2023). She is also a Mental Health First Aider.

Dr Grace Lucas is Assistant Vice President (Education) and an Associate Professor at City St George’s, University of London. As an interdisciplinary academic, with a background in medical humanities and English literature, Grace’s work focuses on exploring the connections between embodiment, narrative, and mental health and wellbeing. She is the author of the bestselling mental health memoir Thin (Penguin, 2007).