Storozynski Residential Writing Fellowship
The Storozynski Writing Fellowship supports emerging writers whose work engages with physical or mental illness, healthcare, disability, the body, and related subjects.
The Fellowship is sponsored by the Health, Humanities, and Society (HHS), a Reilly Center program, in cooperation with the Creative Writing program. This undergraduate course of study introduces students, many of them pre-health, to new perspectives on health and wellness through the lenses of the humanities and the social sciences. Since the inception of HHS, narrative medicine, and literature and medicine more broadly, has been one important component that encourages students to reflect on their own experiences as patients, caregivers, and aspiring medical professionals, with the ultimate goal of deepening their understanding of the role reading and writing play in the development of curiosity, empathy, and advocacy.
Our first Storozynski Fellow was Noga Arikha, who was in residence at Notre Dame after the publication of her book The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind, a book that wove together close observation of neuropsychiatry patients at a Paris hospital, with a memoir of her mother's unexpected decline into Alzheimer's, and treatment at the same hospital. During her residency, Noga spent time with students in HHS and other programs, with graduate students in Creative Writing and other disciplines, and with faculty from both science and the liberal arts. The University Bookstore celebrated her book with a launch and public conversation.
Our second Storozynski Fellow, joining us in April, will be Emily Maloney, whose essay collection Cost of Living moves from the intensely personal, to a devastating portrait of the brokenness of the US healthcare system.
Storozyski Fellows are invited to engage with our HHS and Creative Writing students and faculty. But the primary purpose of the Fellowship is to give writers the space, time, and resources to work on their projects, and any other commitments are kept to a very modest level.