Danielle Spencer

DANIELLE SPENCER, writer, teacher, instructor in the Columbia University Department of Narrative Medicine and the Einstein–Cardozo Department of Bioethics in New York. Focusing her work on narrative and visuality, Spencer presents regularly at medical humanities and bioethics conferences and has been published in The Lancet, WIRED, Creative Nonfiction and Esopus. She also worked as artist/ musician David Byrne’s Art Director as well as with photographer Nan Goldin, and studied literary theory in Paris. Spencer holds a BA from Yale University and an MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. Her father, a mathematician, has worked closely with many Hungarians, including Paul Erdős and Endre Szemerédi; the family lived Budapest several times during her childhood, including a year in which she attended the Kodály Music School.

SEBALD IN MOSZKVA TÉR

I am reading W. G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz, and it is stirring many of my own memories, and memories of remembering, too. The character Austerlitz is sent away from his parents in Prague on a Kindertransport as a young child in the 1930s, a train travelling from the central station

2015.03.06.

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