Biography

Matilda Stubbs, PhD is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program in Global Health Studies at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on the materiality and semiotics of biomedicine and mental health care, located within clinical social work, social service administration, art therapy, autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), and slime culture. She instructs courses on adoption, child welfare, disability, human origins, qualitative research methods, clinical ethnography, digital, visual, and material culture.

Publications

“Slimefulness as Self-care.” Anthropology News 62 (3): 36-40.

“Documenting Lives: The Social and Material Life of the Case File in the United States Foster Care System.” PhD Diss. Northwestern University.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Fellow, Northwestern University

Lecturer, University of Chicago

Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Lecturer, Northeastern Illinois University

Lecturer, University of Illinois at Chicago

Lecturer, Elmhurst College

Lecturer, University of Wisconsin - Parkside

Lecturer, North Central College

Invited Talks

“Slime ASMR.” Alien Embodiments II. Grey Center Co-Laboratory for Arts and Science, University of Chicago. 

“Slime Flies When You’re Having Fun: Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR).” Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University.