About

Dr. Darian Goldin Stahl is interdisciplinary printmaker and bookmaker working between topics of medicine, disability, perinatal experiences, and wellbeing. Dr. Stahl holds a SSHRC Vanier research-creation PhD in Humanities from Concordia University, an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Alberta, and a BFA in Printmaking from Indiana University Bloomington. She recently completed a SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at the UNBC Northern Medical Program and Health Arts Research Centre. Her dissertation, Embodied Books: Experiencing the Health Humanities through Artists’ Books, was published by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers in 2024.

Dr. Stahl's research on patient narrative and artists’ books was awarded with a SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, which she used to launch the Embodied Books Project at the UNBC Northern Medical Program and Health Arts Research Centre. This initiative empowers intrepid bookmakers to create new artists’ books on personal medical experiences. Documentation of this project is available at www.embodiedbooks.com.

Dr. Stahl’s artist’s books are included in permanent collections around the world, such as the Wellcome Collection in London, the Moody Library at Baylor University in Texas, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, and the Herron Art Library at Indiana University. Her original prints are on permanent display in medical spaces, including the Toronto General Hospital Medical Library and the BARLO Multiple Sclerosis Centre in Toronto.

2020. Interview with Darian Goldin Stahl, PhD candidate Humanities Concordia University, Karen Freire Carvalho, PhD student Experimental Medicine Program of the McGill University, and Sofia Granados Aparici PhD, post doctoral fellow at Hugh Clarke's Lab, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.