Maura Spiegal

Professor Maura Spiegel is Co-Director of the Division of Narrative Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Senior Lecturer in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She teaches fiction and film courses often centering on topics of family, memory, place, and affect. She was the co-editor-in-chief of the journal Literature and Medicine (Hopkins U.P.) for seven years. She co-authored The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying and Living On (Anchor/Doubleday) and The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (Oxford University Press), and she has written a biography of the filmmaker Sidney Lumet (St. Martin’s Press). She writes for The New York Times, Newsday, and many other periodicals.