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The Face of War: Figuring Empathy in Pat Barker’s Life Class – Anne Whitehead (Public Lecture, Durham Light Infantry Museum, 21 June 2012)

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Research Summary: The Face of War – Literature and Medical Empathy

Topic: Literary analysis of empathy and trauma representation in Pat Barker's Life Class
Key Focus Areas: Intersections between literature and medicine; trauma and memory; representations of medical doctors in contemporary writing
Event Details: Public lecture by Dr. Anne Whitehead (Newcastle University), 21 June 2012, Durham Light Infantry Museum, 7:30pm, free entry
Research Approach: Examines how the relationship between literature and medicine positions empathy and recovery in contemporary narrative
Scholar Expertise: Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature & Theory with published work on Pat Barker, W.G. Sebald, and Kazuo Ishiguro
Contextual Association: Part of the “Recovery of Beauty” series by Durham University Institute of Advanced Study and Centre for Medical Humanities

Durham University Institute of Advanced Study and the Centre for Medical Humanities The Recovery of Beauty series presents:

A public lecture in association with the exhibition ‘About Face’:

Anne Whitehead

‘The Face of War: Figuring Empathy in Pat Barker’s Life Class’

Thursday 21st June 2012

Durham Light Infantry Museum, 7.30pm.

Free entry, and to be followed by wine and light refreshments

Examining how the relationship between literature and medicine is being positioned in contemporary writing.

Dr. Anne Whitehead is a Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature & Theory at Newcastle University. She has a particular interest in the intersections between trauma and literature, and literature and memory. In these contexts she has published on the work of Pat Barker, W.G. Sebald and Kazuo Ishiguro, amongst others. Her current work broadens out from these concerns to centre on how the relationship between literature and medicine is being positioned in contemporary writing, with a particular focus on representations of the medical doctor.

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