Nicole Xuan Chen

English Lit PhD from @LLCatEdinburgh. Associate Editor @the_polyphony. Research in Contemporary Life-Writing and Narrative Medicine.

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

#DurhamGlobalWeek #DUGlobalWeek We are also developing the “Intercultural Dialogue Dispatch” theme at @the_polyphony

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

Super excited! Do tune in and join the conversation with @the_polyphony editors on publishing, editorship, outreach and engagement in the #medhum! #nnmhr2023

[Dr Chase Ledin @chaseledin]

Wee reminder that @AnnaFranJam, @_cocoalas, @AlyFixit and I will be speaking about @the_polyphony at #NNMHR2023 tomorrow from 14:30 to 16:00. Please bring your questions and ideas - and come learn more about how you can contribute to the critical medical humanities! @NNMHRmed

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

Exploring its relation to poetry, @DrJamesMcGrath celebrates slowness as something of neurological and social importance to autistic people.

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

#SleepAwarenessWeek While so much has been done in the Western context, I am curious about how we can attend to #sleephealth in other social context. Here, Brigitte Steger brings us insights into sleep vulnerability in Japanese tsunami shelters.

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

We hope to support health humanities researchers and healthcare practitioners from or working on under-represented cultures in building their own voice and increasing their visibility in the international arena of medical humanities. Interested in writing for us? DM me!

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

#DurhamGlobalWeek #DUGlobalWeek We are also developing the “Intercultural Dialogue Dispatch” theme at @the_polyphony

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

This broader “Intercultural Dialogue Dispatch” theme invites guests from different cultural and national backgrounds to critically examine the centrality of medical humanities in the UK and North America.

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

@MarbledMayhem interlaces poetry and prose to investigate conceptions of care and pride around disability and identity. Also excited to introduce in this post the newly published Not Without Us, the 1st Singapore critical disability studies collection! @ksvictorzhuang

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

@MarbledMayhem interlaces poetry and prose to investigate conceptions of care and pride around disability and identity. Also excited to introduce in this post the newly published Not Without Us, the 1st Singapore critical disability studies collection! @ksvictorzhuang

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

@MarbledMayhem Congrats Cat! This looks amazing

[Aly F @AlyFixit]

Are you an arts practice-based #MedicalHumanities (or adjacent) researcher? Want to write for @the_polyphony about it? Please get in touch - looking to start/expand conversations about arts practice and methodology in the field. So much great work going on atm!

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

What an amazing experience working with Dawn! Want to know about the accessibility and inclusivity of the Calm Room? What sort of gift of empowerment and healing can we take from the autistic realm? Give it a read!

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

So I’m commissioning posts exploring #RareDisease and East Asia for the World Rare Disease Day Feb 2023. Key debates, history, stigmas… Please share this with people who might be interested in writing one, or DM me!

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

The Intercultural Dialogue theme of @the_polyphony invites guests from different cultural & national backgrounds to critically examine the centrality of #MedHum in the UK and North America. We hope to introduce concepts and narratives about #MedHum in under-represented cultures.

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

The Intercultural Dialogue theme of @the_polyphony invites guests from different cultural & national backgrounds to critically examine the centrality of #MedHum in the UK and North America. We hope to introduce concepts and narratives about #MedHum in under-represented cultures.

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

@DurhamImh Thank you. Working for @thepolyphony and @DurhamImh has been such a highlight of my PhD journey!

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

What a rewarding year at @the_polyphony! I have been inspired by our amazing contributors and learned so much from my colleagues about editing & communication & intercultural collaboration. Excited for another year of great adventures!

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

I passed my viva two weeks ago and received the award of PhD degree today! Four years exploring embodied life-writing via the lenses of #medhum, #intermediality, and the art of conversation, it is finally official! Extremely proud of myself and grateful!

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

Monika sketches the terrain of #dementia #narratives in German-language literary works and argues that they can “produce a new way of conceptualising dementia and contributes to a better understanding of individuals with dementia”.

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

@chaseledin Congrats Chase!

[Nicole Xuan Chen @_cocoalas]

What can we learn from historical archives & medical anecdotes? With her critical reading on two stories about diabetes, Gu discusses the tension between the diagnostic criteria created by biomedicine and the patient’s subjective feelings and bodily messages.