Assistant Professor of Biomedical Humanities (July 2008)
Michael Blackie was named one of the 2007 Professors of the Year by Gamma Sigma Alpha at the University of Southern California, where he also completed his Ph.D. in English in 2004. He obtained his M.A. in English at Georgetown University in 1998 and his B.A. in English with Honors at California State University in 1993.
His primary research and interests lie in twentieth-century American literature and medicine, which are highly reflected in his publications and lectures that span across subjects such as ethics, cultural studies, narrative medicine, medical humanities and history, realism and naturalism, and gender and sexuality.
Assistant Director, Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics
On-Site Director, USC-Cambridge Summer Programme, July 2007
Post-Doctoral Lecturer and Writing Program Coordinator, General Education Honors Program (Thematic Option), USC, 2004-2007
"Narrative Competence as a Clinical Skill," Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D. and David Morris, Ph.D. Stony Brook Manhattan, May 2003
“Sociability, Sexuality, and Community,” UC Berkeley Summer Research Seminar:
Professor Leo Bersani, 1999
“Reading the Rest Cure,” Arizona Quarterly 60.2 (2004): 51-85
Reference essays on “Anonymous Sex,” “Cruising,” and “Male Rape,” in The Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000
“Narrative Ethics,” Round Table with Anna Deavere Smith. University of Southern California, 2006
Helfand Medical Humanities Lecture, “‘The Sensorium in Splints’: Some Permutations of the Rest Cure,” New York Academy of Medicine, New York, 2002
Co-organizer MLA Special Session, “S. Weir Mitchell and Pain: Civil War to Rest Cure,” New Orleans, 2001
“Seeing the Rest-Cured Body,” MLA Special Session, New Orleans, 2001
“The ‘Faint Figure’ between Charlotte Perkins Gilman and S. Weir Mitchell,” International Narrative Conference, Rice University, 2001
“Photographing the Rest Cure,” Dickens Project Winter Conference, Davis, 2001
“Rest Cures: The Fictions and Culture of Regeneration,” Dickens Universe, UC Santa Cruz, 2001
“The Rest Cure Comes to England,” The Victorians Institute, U of South Carolina, 2000
Last Updated February 28, 2008.