Chronic

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.

Nancy K. Miller teaches life writing and cultural criticism at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she is distinguished professor of English and comparative Literature. Her most recent books are the memoir My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism, and with Tahneer Oksman, the edited collection Feminists Reclaim Mentorship: An Anthology. She is based in New York City.
Tahneer Oksman (tahneeroksman.com) is a writer, teacher, and scholar. She is associate professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Language, with a joint appointment in the Department of Communication and Media Arts, at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. Tahneer is author of How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs, and coeditor, with Nancy K. Miller, of Feminists Reclaim Mentorship: An Anthology. She is based in New York City.