Ruby Lark Mendelsund is a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature. Her work focuses on literary representations of illness and disability, d/Deafness and Deaf culture, and the effects of pathology on the body.
As an undergraduate, she was a student in the Medical Humanities department at Columbia, and was awarded the Catherine Medalia Johannet prize for her senior thesis, "Constructions and Reconstructions of Silence in the Oralist Movement and the d/Deaf World." She has conducted research in Neuropathology and Astrophysics, and worked for two years as a volunteer in the emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital.
