• Royce Fellowship
Kelli
Auerbach

Concentration 

American Civilization

Award Year 

1998

Kelli is creating a feature-length documentary that explores the lives of three intersex people. Although it will rely primarily on interviews, the film will also incorporate historical, contemporary, popular and medical representations of "genital anomaly" to create an educational and artistic piece.

Kelli continues to merge her interest in the cultural history of medicine as well as creative writing in both her writing and teaching. While a Visiting Assistant Professor at RISD, Kelli developed multiple interdisciplinary courses, including a team-taught endeavor that combined RISD art students and Brown medical students. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship to South Africa, both Fiction and Screenwriting Fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, and a Wood Travel Grant from the Mutter Museum/College of Physicians Library in Philadelphia. Currently, Kelli is teaching a creative writing and medicine course at California Institute of the Arts.