Maura Spiegel

Maura Spiegel is a professor of English who has been teaching fiction and film at Columbia University and Barnard College for the past 15 years. She is a founding member of the core faculty in the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she offers film courses to second-year medical students. With Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D., she was the co-editor-in-chief of the journal Literature and Medicine (Hopkins UP) for seven years. She co-authored The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying and Living On (Anchor/Doubleday) and The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History (Workman). She writes on numerous topics related to narrative, and she is currently writing a book on the films of Sidney Lumet.