She is at work on a book entitled On Writing and Healing that examines writing in the humanities and in medicine and asks how these different fields can inform one another. Professor Jurecic has recently published in Pedagogy and WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. While attending The University of California at Davis, Kristen Loutensock first began working to develop a film arts curriculum for children with developmental disabilities. This program became the basis for her honors thesis, "Beyond the Margins--Autism in Film and Video" and has remained part of her graduate work at UC Berkeley in Film, Disability Studies, and Cognitive Science.