World AIDS Day Lecture at Annenberg featured speaker Paula Treichler

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

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Paula Treichler, Research Professor of Communications and the former Director of the Institute of Communications Research at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, gave a talk titled: “Medicine, Media, and the Power of Narrative: the AIDS Storyline on General Hospital.” Professor Treichler, an authority on the cultural dimensions of science and medicine, has served since 1972 as a teacher and administrator at the University of Illinois' experimental Unit One program, as dean of students in the College of Medicine, and as Director of the Institute of Communications Research. She is the author of How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS and coauthor of A Feminist Dictionary and Language, Gender, and Professional Writing: Theoretical Essays and Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage. Professor Treichler is currently working on a book on the history of condoms in the U.S. since 1873. The lecture was sponsored by the Annenberg Scholars Program in Culture and Communciation at the Annenberg School for Communication, with support form the Penn Center for AIDS Research (PENN-CFAR.).