#  Boston College: Eula Biss: On Immunity: A Reading and Conversation 

 



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 **November 30, 2016** 

 07:00PM - 07:00PM EST 

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 **Boston College, Gasson Hall Rm. 100, 140 Commonwealth Ave Chestnut Hill, MA 02467**  



 

 



 

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Eula Biss is the author of three books, most recently *On Immunity: An Inoculation* (2014), which was a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle Award for nonfiction. In *On Immunity,* Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear—fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child’s air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines – in order to investigate the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. Her other publications include *Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays* (2009), winner of the National Book Critic Circle Award for criticism, and a collection of poetry, *The Balloonists* (2002). Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, an NEA Literature Fellowship, and a Jaffe Writers’ Award and her essays have recently appeared in *The Best American Nonrequired Reading* and the *Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction* as well as in *The Believer*, *Gulf Coast*, *Denver Quarterly*, *Third Coast*, and *Harper’s*.



 

 



 

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