Elizabeth Dungan, who will hold a dissertation fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Fellowship Program in American Art) during her year as a Townsend Fellow, looks to intersections between medical models of illness— imaging technologies and diagnostic techniques, CAT scans, X-rays and blood tests—and concomitant representations of the body by contemporary American artists in a dissertation entitled Discourses on Disease and Representations of the Body, 1980-1995. Looking particularly at the work of Hannah Wilke, Felix Gonzalez- Torres, Robert Gober, and Kiki Smith, Dungan hopes to demonstrate that artistic production in the period not only makes use of new protocols of looking, and new procedures of imaging, but offers an important site for re-imagining the body and its diseases.