Cassandre Campeau-Bouthillier
Program
PhD candidate
Supervisor
Lisa M. Mitchell
Themes
Culture, health and inequality
I am a doctoral candidate working under the supervision of Dr. Lisa Mitchell.
My work centres on perceptions of and interactions with skeletal bodies--namely, how people experience their musculoskeletal systems through cultural and medical perspectives.
Drawing on theories of body in medical anthropology and other social sciences, I examine yoga and chiropractic care as bodily practices to suggest how attending to individuals’ skeletal lives can complicate and enrich understandings of embodiment.
I am also interested in dimensions involving alternative worldviews and transdisciplinarity in my current and previous work.
I have an MFA in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies from the University of British Columbia where my thesis focused on creating a manuscript of poems that explored the lived experiences of the human skeleton and its place and space within society. My poems have a strong scientific inclination—I like to incorporate elements of anthropology and astronomy within my writing.
I also have a BA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.
My work centres on perceptions of and interactions with skeletal bodies--namely, how people experience their musculoskeletal systems through cultural and medical perspectives.
Drawing on theories of body in medical anthropology and other social sciences, I examine yoga and chiropractic care as bodily practices to suggest how attending to individuals’ skeletal lives can complicate and enrich understandings of embodiment.
I am also interested in dimensions involving alternative worldviews and transdisciplinarity in my current and previous work.
I have an MFA in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies from the University of British Columbia where my thesis focused on creating a manuscript of poems that explored the lived experiences of the human skeleton and its place and space within society. My poems have a strong scientific inclination—I like to incorporate elements of anthropology and astronomy within my writing.
I also have a BA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.