The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce issued the following announcement on Oct. 8
Author and professor Joanne Jacobson, PhD, will share readings and reflections from her most recent book Every Last Breath: A Memoir of Two Illnesses, at SIU School of Medicine’s 2021 Pearson Lecture beginning at 6 pm Wednesday, October 20.
"Every Last Breath" (University of Utah Press, 2020) chronicles the health challenges of Jacobson’s mother’s lung disease and her own blood disorder. In addition to her books, Jacobson has published essays on a range of topics in The Nation, New England Review, BOMB, The Iowa Review, Fourth Genre and Bellevue Literary Review. Her writing has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Jacobson grew up in the Midwest and recently returned to Evanston after living in New York City for three decades. She earned a BA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and an MA and PhD from the University of Iowa, all in American Civilization. She has taught courses in American literature and culture and in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa, the University of Angers (France), Middlebury College and Yeshiva University, where she also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Yeshiva College.
The lecture will be held virtually via WebEx. Registration is available now for the presentation.
Learn more about Dr. Jacobson at joannejacobson.com.
SIU’s Department of Medical Humanities sponsors the Pearson Lecture. The lecture is named in honor of Dr. Emmet F. Pearson, a Springfield physician and a professor emeritus in the internal medicine and medical humanities departments at SIU. He died in June 1996. The school’s medical museum is also named in his honor.
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