The Global Media Representations of Mental Health/Illness group will help rewrite dominant narratives and understandings of mental health in the U.S. and globally to better capture the complex determinants, inequalities, forms of knowledge production and activism at work.
About the Project
What social and cultural assumptions are embedded in and reinforced by media portrayals of mental illness? How might richer, more counter-cultural depictions of mental illness broaden social understandings of distress, and highlight the structural factors that shape individual and group vulnerabilities? The Global Media Representations of Mental Health/Illness Group will study existing portrayals of mental illness, while promoting the creation of new portrayals through film and television, plays, performance pieces and other forms of media.
Group Members
- Eliza Bent, Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University School of Communication
- AJ Christian, Communication Studies, Northwestern University School of Communication
- Erin Courtney, Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University School of Communication
- Gerpha Gerlin, Anthropology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University
- Alexandra Joyce, Playwriting and Screenwriting, Northwestern University School of Communication
- Peter Locke, Global Health Studies, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University*
- Robin Nusslock, Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University
- Beatriz Oralia Reyes, Global Health Studies, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University
- Beatriz Reyes-Foster, Anthropology, University of Central Florida
- Suzanne Rosenfeld, Chicago Psychoanalytic Society
- Rebecca Seligman, Anthropology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University*
- David Tolchinsky, Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University School of Communication*
*indicates Group leaders