Christopher Lee Manes

Christopher Lee Manes, PhD, teaches Rhetoric at the University of Texas at Dallas and History at Richland College. His primary role is Response to Intervention Coordinator for Richland Collegiate High School, a charter school of Dallas County Community College District. His work has appeared in Louisiana History, the Southwestern Review, and Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

Attitudes toward leprosy are represented in this watercolor commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome around 1912 from Richard Cooper, a graphic artist known for his advertisements for the London Underground. Painting shows people scrambling to get away from a leper who strolls by, ringing a bell. In their haste, the crowd has left an infant on the roadside. CC-BY 4.0 from Wellcome Collection.
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“Less a Leper Than I Have Been”

by Christopher Lee Manes

Book of documentary poetry recalls Louisiana's Carville Hospital and early 20th century experience of leprosy in America