Research

Dr. McKim’s research interests include:

• Literature and medicine
• Illness narratives
• The role of narrative in identity
• Literary gerontology
• Life-writing, particularly memoir
• Bibliotherapy, particularly with fiction

Current projects involve a study of the relationship between bibliotherapy and recent research on reading; a joint project with the CIRN team involving the correlation between resilience and narrative competence among older adults; a joint book-editing project with colleagues in Paris entitled Life and Narrative (a collection of essays coming out of the conference Narrative Matters 2012); and the ongoing editing of the journal Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations, & Interventions.