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Creative Arts and Eating Disorders in Men (2024)
Book Chapter
Bartel, H. (in press). Creative Arts and Eating Disorders in Men. In P. Crawford, & P. Kadetz (Eds.), Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities (1-10). Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Opening a New Space for Health Communication: Twitter and the Discourse of Eating Disorders in Men (2023)
Book Chapter
Bartel, H., & Downs, J. (2023). Opening a New Space for Health Communication: Twitter and the Discourse of Eating Disorders in Men. In G. Brookes, & M. Chałupnik (Eds.), Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health (77-99). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38407-3_4

Eating disorders include—but are not confined to—bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, atypical eating disorders, and anorexia nervosa. Increasing prevalence, notably amongst young people in tandem with the COVID-19 pandemic (Solmi et al., 2021), h... Read More about Opening a New Space for Health Communication: Twitter and the Discourse of Eating Disorders in Men.

“It’s a Touchy Subject”: Service Providers’ Perspectives of Eating Disorders in Men and Boys (2023)
Journal Article
Foye, U., Mycock, G., & Bartel, H. (2023). “It’s a Touchy Subject”: Service Providers’ Perspectives of Eating Disorders in Men and Boys. The Journal of Men's Studies, Article 106082652311530. https://doi.org/10.1177/10608265231153087

This study explores the perceptions and experiences of providers of eating disorder services towards men to understand the challenges and barriers experienced by both professionals and patients in addressing the gender bias within this field. A total... Read More about “It’s a Touchy Subject”: Service Providers’ Perspectives of Eating Disorders in Men and Boys.

Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives (2022)
Journal Article
Pearson, M., Allsopp, G., Bartel, H., Singh, P., & Crawford, P. (2022). Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives. Health Expectations, 25(6), 2950-2959. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13602

Background: Healthcare is witnessing a new disease with the emergence of Long Covid; a condition which can result in myriad symptoms, varying in frequency and severity. As new data are emerging to help inform treatment guidelines, the perspectives of... Read More about Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives.

A ‘Girls’ Illness?' Using Narratives of Eating Disorders in Men and Boys in Healthcare Education and Research (2022)
Book Chapter
Bartel, H. (2022). A ‘Girls’ Illness?' Using Narratives of Eating Disorders in Men and Boys in Healthcare Education and Research. In K. Hinsliff-Smith, J. McGarry, & P. Ali (Eds.), Arts Based Health Care Research: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (69-84). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94423-0_6

This chapter addresses how arts-based approaches can advance healthcare training, therapy and research in the field of eating disorders. It brings to the forefront the under-researched and under-represented topic of eating disorders in men and boys.... Read More about A ‘Girls’ Illness?' Using Narratives of Eating Disorders in Men and Boys in Healthcare Education and Research.

Use of Writing Letters and Other Literature Forms to Capture Experiences of Research Participants (2022)
Book Chapter
Hinsliff-Smith, K., McGarry, J., Randa, M. B., Bartel, H., & Langmack, G. (2022). Use of Writing Letters and Other Literature Forms to Capture Experiences of Research Participants. In K. Hinsliff-Smith, J. McGarry, & P. Ali (Eds.), Arts Based Health Care Research: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (121-135). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94423-0_9

Within any form of qualitative research, the researcher’s role is to help the participant share their experiences and to translate and convey the messages often as interview themes and findings. However, often these traditional qualitative approaches... Read More about Use of Writing Letters and Other Literature Forms to Capture Experiences of Research Participants.

Arctic rolls and gender roles: Female and male eating disorders in Karen Duve’s Regenroman and other texts (2020)
Journal Article
Bartel, H. (2020). Arctic rolls and gender roles: Female and male eating disorders in Karen Duve’s Regenroman and other texts. Journal of Romance Studies, 20(2), 225-248. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.14

The following article examines disordered eating in men and women. It discusses the novel Regenroman [Rain] by German writer Karen Duve focusing on gender roles, food consumption and the interconnection between female bulimia and male binge eating in... Read More about Arctic rolls and gender roles: Female and male eating disorders in Karen Duve’s Regenroman and other texts.

Poetry on Eating Disorders in Men (2020)
Book Chapter
Bartel, H. (2020). Poetry on Eating Disorders in Men. In P. Crawford, B. Brown, & A. Charise (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (248-254). Routledge

Poetry and male eating disorders (2020)
Book Chapter
Bartel, H., & Baker, C. (2020). Poetry and male eating disorders. In P. Crawford, B. Brown, & A. Charise (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (248-254). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Literary texts—from autobiographies and novels to self-help books and poetry—that explore experiences of illness can give unique and poignant insights into the states of mind and lives of individuals affected by physical or mental ill health. This ch... Read More about Poetry and male eating disorders.

Writing food and food memories in Turkish-German literature by Renan Demirkan, Hatice Akyün and Emine Sevgi Özdamar (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Bartel, H. (2019). Writing food and food memories in Turkish-German literature by Renan Demirkan, Hatice Akyün and Emine Sevgi Özdamar. In D. Göttsche (Ed.), Memory and Postcolonial Studies: Synergies and New Directions

This essay explores the role of food and eating in the autobiographical fictions of three very different female Turkish-German authors writing in German. It employs postcolonial theory to explore the complex relationship between gender, identity and... Read More about Writing food and food memories in Turkish-German literature by Renan Demirkan, Hatice Akyün and Emine Sevgi Özdamar.

Teilhabe an der Welt (2019)
Journal Article
Bartel, H. (2019). Teilhabe an der Welt. Faust-Kultur: www.faust-kultur.de,

In ihrem Gedicht 'Am Thurme' lässt Annette von Droste-Hülshoff ein weibliches Ich 'auf hohem Balkon am Turm' ihr Haar 'heimlich flattern im Wind', lässt es sich verwegen in eine Welt männlicher Abenteuer träumen und doch letztendlich im Turm bleiben... Read More about Teilhabe an der Welt.

Challenging perspectives: narrative approaches in Ulrike Almut Sandig's Flamingos. Geschichten (2018)
Journal Article
Bartel, H. (2018). Challenging perspectives: narrative approaches in Ulrike Almut Sandig's Flamingos. Geschichten. Oxford German Studies, 47(3), 351-365. https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2018.1503473

In Flamingos, Ulrike Almut Sandig’s collection of eleven stories, narrative perspective comes under constant challenge so that these superficially simple texts reveal on closer inspection a multi-layered complexity. The following close readings of a... Read More about Challenging perspectives: narrative approaches in Ulrike Almut Sandig's Flamingos. Geschichten.

What is home? An art-based workshop to explore the physical, relational and wellbeing properties of Home (2017)
Journal Article
Vallejos, E. P., Baker, C., McGarry, J., Joyes, E., Carletti, L., Bartel, H., …Higginbottom, R. (2017). What is home? An art-based workshop to explore the physical, relational and wellbeing properties of Home. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 8(3), 341-355. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah.8.3.341_1

This feasibility study was framed under the notion of creative practices as mutual recovery – the idea that shared creativity, collective experience and mutual benefit can promote resilience in mental health and well-being. The study evaluated the im... Read More about What is home? An art-based workshop to explore the physical, relational and wellbeing properties of Home.

A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea' (2011)
Journal Article
Bartel, H. (2011). A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea'. German Life and Letters, 64(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2010.01519.x

In the extensive tradition of adaptations of the Medea myth in German-speaking literature Paul Heyse’s novella Medea (1898) has been often overlooked. However, the fact that it is the first text to introduce the tragic heroine from classical mytholog... Read More about A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea'.