FACULTY

Gerald Callahan

Associate Professor. B.S. Biological Science, Ph.D. Experimental Pathology, University of Utah. Professor

Callahan teaches courses in human disease, animal disease, veterinary immunology, construction of self in the arts and sciences, and creative science writing. He has published poetry and creative nonfiction in numerous publications. His essay, Chimera , was selected for inclusion in In Fact, the best essays from the first ten years of Creative Nonfiction. He has also published a book of personal essays and poetry, River Odyssey: A Story of the Colorado Plateau and a book of creative science writing, Faith, Madness, and Spontaneous Human Combustion: What Immunology Can Teach Us about Self-Perception. This book was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. This book has also been translated into Japanese and Portuguese. He is also Science Editor for turnrow magazine and a regular contributor to Science and Spirit Magazine as well as Emerging Infectious Diseases , a publication of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, GA. His work was recently selected for recording for a National Geographic Documentary. He is currently working on a new book, Infection, about the science and poetry of the microscopic to be published by St. Martin’s Press, New York, NY.