Chapter Title: Acknowledgments

Book Title: Mammographies

Book Subtitle: The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives
Book Author(s): Mary K. DeShazer
Published by: University of Michigan Press

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 Acknowledgments

Since I could never have written a book about postmillennial representa-

tions of breast cancer without the creative visions of the writers, photog-
raphers, and scholars whose work I analyze in Mammographies, I must
first express my gratitude to them for providing me with inspiration. I
am indebted to Wake Forest University for awarding me an R. J. Rey­
nolds Faculty Research Leave in 2008–­9, during which I conducted much
of my research for this study, and an Archie Grant to visit the Jo Spence
Memorial Archive in London in 2011. I am grateful to curator Terry Den-
nett for his assistance at the archive. My colleagues at Wake Forest have
been generous in their support; I especially thank English Department
Chair Scott Klein and Associate Chair Dean Franco, Women’s and Gen-
der Studies Director Wanda Balzano, Rian Bowie, Anne Boyle, Andrew
Ettin, Shannon Gilreath, Claudia Kairoff, Mary Martin Niepold, Gillian
Overing, Erica Still, Olga Valbuena, and retired colleagues Nancy Cotton,
Bob Shorter, and Eva Rodtwitt. For reading my work-­in-­progress, special
thanks go to Anita Helle at Oregon State University, Catherine Keller at
Drew University, Patrick Moran at Princeton University, and my WFU
transnational feminist theory group: Sally Barbour, Sandya Hewamanne,
Catherine Harnois, Judith Madera, and Alessandra Beasley Von Burg. I
also appreciate the kindness of WGS administrative coordinators Linda
Mecum and Pat Gardea and English Department administrative coordi-
nators Peggy Barrett and Connie Green.
Many dear friends have been cheering me on for years, and I am grate-
ful to have them in my life: Sarah Lu Bradley, E. J. Essic, Gary Ljungquist,
Patti Patridge, Inzer Byers, and Rose Simon in North Carolina; Cath-
erine Paul, Sean Scuras, Susan Hilligoss, Kathie Heinz, Donna Reiss, and
Art Young in South Carolina; Sandra and Alan Bryant in Kentucky; Su-
san Carlson, Jane Mead, Monza Naff, and Sharon Ellison in the Bay Area;
Martha Kierstead, Cathy Simard, and Nancy Winbigler in Oregon; and
Ana Manzanas and Jesús Benito in Salamanca. My family has provided
emotional sustenance as well, and I deeply appreciate my siblings, Kathy
DeShazer, Sam DeShazer, and Bettye Grogan; my stepdaughter, Sasha
Oberbeck; my daughter-­in-­spirit, Kim Kessaris; my stepsons, Evan Ja-
cobi and Andrew Jacobi; and my wonderful husband, Martin Jacobi. I

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viii acknowledgments

thank our niece, Megan Brownell, for sharing her own eloquent cancer
blog in 2012. And I remain grateful to my late parents, Marian and Henry
DeShazer, for all they gave me.
Hearty thanks are due to LeAnn Fields, my editor at the University of
Michigan Press, and to her assistant, Alexa Ducsay, for their assistance
with this project. I also appreciate the support of the coeditors of journal
issues in which my research was published: Jane E. Schultz and Martha
Stoddard Holmes, who edited the “Cancer Stories” special issue of Lit-
erature and Medicine, and Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar, who edited
“The Body in Breast Cancer” special issue of Social Semiotics.
An earlier version of the first chapter of this book, “Postmillennial
Breast Cancer Photo-­narratives: Technologized Terrain,” was published
in Social Semiotics 22, no. 1 (February 2012): 13–­30, and is reprinted by
permission of the publisher, Taylor & Francis Ltd., http://www.tand
fonline.com. An earlier version of chapter 6, “Cancer Narratives and an
Ethics of Commemoration: Susan Sontag, Annie Leibovitz, and David
Rieff,” was published in Literature and Medicine 28, no. 2 (Fall 2009):
215–36, and is reprinted by permission of the publisher, The Johns Hop-
kins University Press.

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