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Kristin LaFollette

Dr. Kristin LaFollette

Assistant Professor of English

English Department

Affiliated Faculty of Gender Studies

Gender Studies

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Dr. Kristin LaFollette is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana where she teaches courses on rhetoric and writing, medical humanities, and gender and sexuality studies and serves as the basic writing specialist.

Dr. LaFollette co-edited Queer Approaches: Emotion, Expression, and Communication in the Classroom (Information Age Publishing, 2020), and other recent scholarship can be found in Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Across the DisciplinesJournal of Basic Writing, and Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. She is also a writer and the author of the poetry collections Hematology (winner of the 2021 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize) and Body Parts (winner of the 2017 GFT Press Chapbook Prize).

Dr. LaFollette has an avid interest in medicine and once worked in a hospital and pursued a degree in pre-medicine to become a medical doctor. Now, much of her work incorporates or focuses on medicine and the body. In addition, she is a member of the Board of Advisors at The Blood Project (TBP), an educational platform out of Harvard Medical School that works toward bridging the gap between evidence-based medicine and patient care.

Learn more about her work at kristinlafollette.com.

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