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Terrence Holt, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Assistant Professor, Departments of Social Medicine and Internal Medicine

Specialty Areas: Acute inpatient, long-term and ambulatory care of the elderly.

Geriatrics Specialty Clinic Provider: Yes
UNC Hospitals Provider: Yes

Education Chronology:

2002-2004 Residency: Geriatric Medicine. Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
2000-2002 Residency: Internal Medicine. Department of Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
2000 MD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine
1985 PhD: Cornell University, Nineteenth-Century British Literature, English Poetry, Creative Writing
1982 MA: English Literature. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1979 MFA: Prose Fiction. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1975 BA: English Literature. Lawrence University, Appleton, WI

Professional Chronology:

2013 – Present Director, MA Subplan in Literature, Medicine and Culture, Department of English and Comparative Literature. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2014 – Present Adjunct Assistant Professor. Department of English and Comparative Literature. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2006 – Present Research Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2006 – Present Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2002 – 2006 Instructor, Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1992 – 1995 Visiting Writer, Department of English. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
1984 – 1994 Assistant Professor, Department of English. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ


Research Summary: Narrative medicine, cultural isolation in the elderly, web-based communities

Selected Bibliography:

Books
  1. Holt, T. Internal Medicine. New York, NY: Liveright/W.W.Norton, 2014. 228 pp.
  2. Holt, T. In the Valley of the Kings. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2009. 224 pp.
  3. Holt, T. The Universe Next Door. New York, NY: Scribners, 1985. 416 pp.
Novella
Holt, T. In the Valley of the Kings. In TriQuarterly: An International Journal of Writing, Arts, and Cultural Inquiry. Volume 82, Fall 1991. pp. 104-151.
Chapters
  1. Holt, T. Apocalypse. In S. Corey (ed.), Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard: Selected fiction from six decades of The Georgia Review. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2012. pp. 154-168.
  2. Holt, T. The Merck Manual: A Memoir. In S. Manning (ed.), Bound to Last: 30 Writers on the Stories Behind the Most Meaningful Book on Their Shelves. New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 2011. pp. 92-101.
  3. Holt, T. Narrative Medicine and Negative Capability. P. Rudnytsky and R. Charon (eds.) Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2008. pp. 83-98.
  4. Holt, T. O’Logos. In A. Obara, Translator. Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope All-Story. Fujimi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan: Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Company, 2004. pp. 261-278.
  5. Holt, T. O’Logos. In A. Brodeur and S. Schnee (eds.), Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope All-Story 2. New York, NY: Harcourt Press, 2003. pp. 309-323.
  6. Holt, T. O’Logos. In J. Diaz (ed.), Beacon Best of 2000. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2001. pp. 163-173.
  7. Holt, T. Men Sell Not Such in Any Town: Exchange in “Goblin Market”. In T. Cosslett (ed.) Victorian Women Poets. London, UK: Longman Publishing, 1996. pp. 194-210.
  8. Holt, T. Aurora. In C. Gammon and B. Smith (eds.), Cape Discovery: the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Anthology. Riverdale, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 1994. pp. 387-397.
  9. Holt, T. Aurora. In G.Falkner and S.Lotringer (eds.), AM LIT – Neue amerikanische literature. Berlin: Druckhaus Galrev Publishers, 1992. pp.187-199.
  10. Holt, T. Teaching Frankenstein and Science Fiction. In A. Mellor and S. Behrendt (eds.) Approaches to Teaching Frankenstein. New York, NY: Medical Library Association Publishers. 1990. pp. 112-120.
  11. Holt, T. Apocalypse. In S. Lindberg and S. Corey (eds.), Necessary Fictions. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1986. pp. 174-187.
  12. Holt, T. Apocalypse. In Georgia Review XL: 40th Anniversary Fiction Retrospective. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1986. pp. 174-187.
Refereed Papers/Articles
  1. Holt, T. Narrative Medicine and Negative Capability. Literature and Medicine, 23(2). 2008; 318-333.
  2. Holt, T. The Bomb and the Baby Boom. TriQuarterly: An International Journal of Writing, Arts, and Cultural Inquiry. Volume 80, Winter, 1990- 1991. pp. 206-220.
  3. Holt, T. Men Sell Not Such in Any Town: Exchange in “Goblin Market”. In Victorian Poetry 28 (1). Morgantown, WVA: West Virginia University Press, Spring, 1990. pp. 51-67
  4. Holt, T. A Child is Being Eaten: Political Repressions, Alien Invations. In V. Camden (ed.) Compromise Formations: Current Directions in Psychoanalytic Criticism. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1989. pp. 214-234.
  5. Holt, T. Notes Toward a Better Fiction. In S. Lindberg (ed.) The Georgia Review XLIII (1). Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, Spring, 1989. pp. 189-199.

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