Jessica Dillard-Wright

Assistant Professor, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing

Research Interests

My research interests broadly reside in the intersection between nursing, philosophy, history, and activism informed by science and technology studies.

Academic Background

Fellow, University of California Irvine Center for Nursing Philosophy 2021-2022
Posthumanism and New Materialism Intensive Summer Institute, University of Utrecht Summer 2021
PhD in Nursing, with distinction, Augusta University 2020
MSN in Community-based Nurse-Midwifery Education Program, Frontier Nursing University 2015
MSN in Clinical Nurse Leader, Medical College of Georgia 2009
MA in Women’s History, Sarah Lawrence College 2006
BS in Science, Technology and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology 2004

Current Research

My current research efforts examine the intersection between nursing - a form of healthcare delivery - and philosophy. I am preparing for a large-scale philosophical study on ethics as a practice in nursing using a framework of critical posthumanism. This relates to the CPHM because, in the provision of healthcare, nurses are frequently engaged with personalized health monitoring in technologically-mediated ways from before admission to after discharge and even in primary care settings.

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Publications

Hopkins‐Walsh, J., Dillard‐Wright, J., & Brown, B. B. (2022). Nursing for the Chthulucene: Abolition, affirmation, antifascism. Nursing Philosophy, e12405

https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12405

Hopkins Walsh, J., Dillard-Wright, J., Brown, B. B., Smith, J., & Willis, E. (2022). Critical Posthuman Nursing Care: Bodies Reborn and the Ethical Imperative for Composting. Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse, 4(1), 16–35.

https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.126

Dillard‐Wright, J. (2022). A radical imagination for nursing: Generative insurrection, creative resistance. Nursing Philosophy, 23(1), e12371.

https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12371

Brown, B., Dillard-Wright, J., Hopkins-Walsh, J., Littzen, C. O., & Vo, T. (2021). Patterns of Knowing and Being in the COVIDicene: An Epistemological and Ontological Reckoning for Posthumans. ANS. Advances in Nursing Science.

https://doi.org/10.1097/ans.0000000000000387

Dillard-Wright, J. & Shields-Haas, V. (2021). Nursing with the People: Reimagining Futures for Nursing. Advances in Nursing Science, 44(3), 195-209.

https://doi.org/10.1097/ans.0000000000000361

Dillard-Wright, J., Walsh, J. H., & Brown, B. B. (2020). We have never been Nurses: Nursing in the Anthropocene, Undoing the Capitalocene. Advances in Nursing Science, 43(2), 132-146.

https://doi.org/10.1097/ans.0000000000000313

Walsh, J. H. & Dillard-Wright, J. S. (2020). The case for “structural missingness:” A critical discourse of missed care. Nursing Philosophy, 21(1)

https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12279

Dillard-Wright, J. S. (2019). Electronic Health Record as a Panopticon: A Disciplinary Apparatus in Nursing Practice. Nursing Philosophy, 20(2).

https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12239

Jessica Dillard-Wright

Institute for Applied Life Sciences