Jeiry De La Cruz Reynoso’s Profile

This course challenges students to examine how depictions of bodies have real-world consequences for the ways we relate to our bodies, interact with one another, and navigate the larger structures that regulate bodies (such as healthcare systems). Through the analysis of a variety of visual, written, and/or musical texts, we will examine the roles that institutions, disciplines, and media outlets play in constructing and circulating narratives about the body, as well as the implications of these narratives in our cultural understanding of health and disease. Research questions that will guide our approach include: How do different disciplines (such as medicine, engineering, the arts, etc.) shape representations of bodies? How is disease depicted, and by whom? Who decides what qualifies as “healthy” vs. “unhealthy?” How are nonvisible entities like the mind or spirit depicted in relation to the body? How might bodies be defined as “natural” or “enhanced,” and who makes this distinction?

This course challenges students to examine how depictions of bodies have real-world consequences for the ways we relate to our bodies, interact with one another, and navigate the larger structures that regulate bodies (such as healthcare systems). Through the analysis of a variety of visual, written, and/or musical texts, we will examine the roles that institutions, disciplines, and media outlets play in constructing and circulating narratives about the body, as well as the implications of these narratives in our cultural understanding of health and disease. Research questions that will guide our approach include: How do different disciplines (such as medicine, engineering, the arts, etc.) shape representations of bodies? How is disease depicted, and by whom? Who decides what qualifies as “healthy” vs. “unhealthy?” How are nonvisible entities like the mind or spirit depicted in relation to the body? How might bodies be defined as “natural” or “enhanced,” and who makes this distinction?

Are you a writer? Do you want to learn more about the publishing industry? If yes, we’ve designed this new course for you! We’re going to explore what it means to edit and publish another person’s work, whether that be a novel that has yet to be published or a book that has been in print for hundreds of years but needs a new audience in the digital age. Students will research the publication history of two books that have been meaningful in their lives and design a publishing project that they would like to develop in the future. Students will also contribute to the shape of the course going forward, helping us build a structure that will allow students to propose and contribute to publications being developed by The University of New Haven Press.

Are you a writer? Do you want to learn more about the publishing industry? If yes, we’ve designed this new course for you! We’re going to explore what it means to edit and publish another person’s work, whether that be a novel that has yet to be published or a book that has been in print for hundreds of years but needs a new audience in the digital age. Students will research the publication history of two books that have been meaningful in their lives and design a publishing project that they would like to develop in the future. Students will also contribute to the shape of the course going forward, helping us build a structure that will allow students to propose and contribute to publications being developed by The University of New Haven Press.