Ph.D candidate (Theater, Dance and Performance Studies) Gretchen Case focuses in her dissertation, Medical Scarring and the Performance of Memory, on the representations of scars in medical, literary, and theatrical discourse, engaging the rhetoric of medicine in dialogue with issues of disability. Case, whose year at the Townsend Center is supported by a fellowship from the Graduate Division, plans a thesis that incorporates both written and performed texts to extend the exploration of scars beyond metaphor and into embodied experience. Her goal is to provide a new paradigm for examining crucial questions surrounding both ill and well bodies.