Participant Info
- First Name
- Chisomo
- Last Name
- Kalinga
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- chisomo.kalinga@ed.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Edinburgh, Centre of African Studies
- Website URL
- http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk/people/core_staff/chisomo_kalinga
- Keywords
- history of medicine in Malawi, medical humanities, narrative medicine, oral history, literature and medicine, medical missionary history in Malawi
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr Chisomo Kalinga is a Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities postdoctoral fellow at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her current project examines literary traditions and health narratives in Malawi and its border countries. She is also collaborating with the Art and Global Health Centre Africa and the University of Malawi to launch the first medical humanities network for Malawiana studies. She was most recently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD was completed at King’s College London (2014) and offered a comparative study of Malawian and American AIDS fiction. Her research interests are disease (esp. sexuality transmitted infections), biomedicine, traditional healing and witchcraft in African writing and narratives.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- misschisomo
- Country Focus
- Malawi
- Expertise by Geography
- Africa
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Medicine, Religion, Women, Art
