Welcome to the homepage of Emily Herrington, PhD.

I study biomedical rhetoric and disability ethics and teach college classes in communication at University of Pittsburgh (PhD, MA, 2019). My research explores how recipients of experimental hand transplants (HTx) and their loved ones talk about post-surgical outcomes of HTx—especially long-term “quality of life” outcomes—and how narrative insights from hand transplant patients compare to the measurement-oriented outcomes assessments given by HTx doctor-researchers.
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The "read" page contains multiple links to my academic work and some select science writing (interviews and essays); check back soon for teaching tools (exercises, syllabi) from the courses I teach at Pitt and for research updates.