Courtney Andree completed a Ph.D. in English and Film & Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis in August 2015, and served as the postdoctoral fellow in English. Her work has appeared in Film History, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Literature Compass. She is currently a publicist for Yale University Press.
Written by a quondam amateur boxer and celebrated ring scribe, Damage is a fluid combination of medical history, scientific facts, and personal narratives. Half of the gracefully written text is focused on the connection or, much more commonly, the lack thereof between the medical and boxing communities.
While Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane is one of the most beloved and frequently taught and dissected works in American film history, Lebo is careful to remind readers that the film’s success was anything but a foregone conclusion.