Mutant Matter and Memory: Different Bodily Foundations in Ward One of Toledo, Ohio

Carolyn Erler is an Assistant Professor of Visual Studies in the School of Art at Texas Tech University. She received her BFA in painting and MFA in creative writing at Bowling Green State University. After teaching art at St. Catherine University in St. Paul-Minneapolis for ten years, she earned a PhD in art education at Florida State University. (She was diagnosed with breast cancer while working on her doctorate.) She writes and teaches on the intersections of visual culture, biomedicine, ecology, gender and education.

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