Writing Professor Tahneer Oksman Edits “Chronic,” a WSQ Special Issue
On May 26, Women’s Studies Quarterly (WSQ) will release “Chronic,” a special issue of the twice-annual journal published by the Feminist Press at CUNY. Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Language and Communication and Media Arts Tahneer Oksman, Ph.D., co-edited this issue with Nancy K. Miller. She will speak at the online launch party on May 26 at 6 PM.
This special issue of WSQ takes the contemporary phenomenon of long COVID as its point of departure to consider the social, affective, and political consequences of living with chronic illness.
The articles and hybrid work included in the issue map the critical and scholarly intersections of chronic illness with disability and critical race studies, care, affect, and feminist eco-theory. WSQ: Chronic explores new ways to live with and understand the challenges of chronic illness, and in the process, following activism and scholarship in the fields of health humanities and graphic medicine, proposes new paradigms of health and healthcare.
Authors/artists/scholars with pieces in the volume include: Amber Musser; Sara Ahmed; Susan Gubar; Mathew Rodriguez; Angela Francis; Susan Squier; Jacob Elias Aplaca; Ann Wallace; S. Akina Canady; Anna Poletti; Ellen Samuels; Ashna Ali; Joy Ladin; Donna J. Gelagotis Lee; Alana Guarino and Maria Susan Guarino; Emily Lim Rogers; Ju Ly Ban; Alix Kates Shulman; Jaggar DeMarco; Jane Gallop; Dick Blau; Ellen Sweet; Kate Schnur; Rebecca Teich; Faye Ginsburg; jah elyse sayers; Rachel Adams; Lisa Diedrich; Jennifer Cruté; Mira Schor; Danielle LaPlace; Beaudelaine Pierre; Rachel C. Lee; Ilana Pagán-Teitelbaum.
The launch party will be hosted by the CUNY Center for the Humanities on Zoom. Attendance is free, but registration is required. Click here to reserve your spot!
Published: May 08, 2026
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Summer is approaching and two news outlets are taking book recommendations from one of our most illustrious professors! Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Language and Communication and Media Arts Tahneer Oksman, Ph.D., is quoted in both NPR and Publishers Weekly with book recommendations for two thematic occasions: the summer publishing season and the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding.
