Nels Highberg

Nels Highberg

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Nels Highberg (he/they) is an essayist, mixed media artist, and professor of English and modern languages at the University of Hartford. His work has appeared in Brevity, Catapult, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and Feminist Teacher, and he received an Artistic Excellence Award from the State of Connecticut in 2020.

History

Deconstructing HIV and AIDS on Designing Women

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Before protease inhibitors radically improved the lives of many people living with HIV in the mid-1990s, numerous sitcoms from Mr. Belvedere in 1986 to Grace Under Fire in 1996 fought ignorance and prejudice with more care and passion than many who had been elected to public office. For example, in 2018 on Nursing Clio, Claire… Read more →