Samantha Chipman

Samantha focuses on cognitive approaches to literature, autism and neurodiversity, disability studies, archives, and the health humanities. She explores the interconnections between literature, bioethics, and archival research to advance disability justice and health equity in educational and healthcare environments.

An English PhD student pursuing a Bioethics certificate at Emory University, she has written and presented about various topics including machines and mental language in Moby-Dick, ambiguity and neuropoetics in Emily Dickinson’s poetry, anatomy in Frankenstein, epistemic injustice and language in healthcare settings, the AI ethics of autism diagnosis, language and public health ethics, autism narratives, and building educational spaces of empowerment for autistic and neurodivergent individuals

Samantha is also co-founder of Intersecting Minds: A NeuroHumanities & Consciousness Collective, a collaborative, welcoming, and inclusive space for individuals interested in the neurohumanities and consciousness studies.