Mita Mahato is Associate Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound where she teaches courses in Visual Studies and Cultural/Literary Theory.  Her scholarly work traces the relationship between narrative and illness, examining contemporary and hybridized media in particular (hypermedia, comics, photo-essays).  Her creative work is in comics, often using collage and cut-outs in order to draw attention to the material quality of the form and the people and situations she takes as her subjects.  You may find more of her work at theseframesarehidingplaces.com.