Dr Paola Esposito

Paola’s research interests pivot around the theme of the lived body and the relationships between perceptual experiences and imagination of the body across artistic, therapeutic and medical domains. She has conducted long-term multi-sited fieldwork on the transnational and Japanese dance and wellbeing system butoh. She has also worked with performers and makers from different backgrounds. Her recent research has included studies of material-corporeal entanglements and their implications for notions of the self and for wellbeing. Her current research is on the development of multimodal methodologies and the use of visual methods in medical anthropology.

As Departmental Lecturer, Paola continues her work as an Early-Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology in 2016-2017. She lectures and tutors medical anthropology MSc and MPhil students, undergraduates in medical anthropology, social anthropology, the anthropology of Japan, and clinical medical students taking the special studies module in medical anthropology. She also teaches ethnographic research methods to doctoral students from a variety of backgrounds, including anthropology, education, geography, primary health care, politics and social policy. She has experience in leading workshops on performance anthropology for anthropologists and professional performers. Paola continues to convene the Green Templeton College Medical Anthropology Film & Discussion Group.