Emily Lim Rogers

Selection of recent work. Updated 09/2026.

Book: Sick Work: Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness (Duke University Press, 2026)

Read an interview with Mother Jones’s Julie Métraux

2025. “Lesbian AIDS: An Illness of One’s Own?” Signs, 51, issue 1

2024. “A Syndrome in Search of a Virus: ME/CFS, Disease Paradigms, and the Social Function of Pathogens. Osiris 39.

2023. “Illness, Endurance, and Proximities of AIDS Activism.” Feminist Formations 35, no. 3.

2022. “Recursive Debility: Symptoms, Patient Activism, and the Incomplete Medicalization of ME/CFS.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 36 (3), 412-428.

Peer-Reviewed, Solo Authored

Co-Authored Article, Peer-Reviewed

2024. Hsu VJ, Moodie M, Dumes A, Rogers EL, Carter C, Broder E, Couture D, Löwy I, Mendenhall E; Complex Chronic Illness Collective. Patients as knowledge partners in the context of complex chronic conditions, Medical Humanities.

2026. “Will ‘Care’ Save Us?” Public Books.

2022. “The Lapsed Ethnographer: Toward Foggy Fieldwork.” Society for Cultural Anthropology, Fieldsights, September 6.

2020. “Staying (At Home) With Brain Fog: Un-witting Patient Activism.” Somatosphere, October 5.

Online Publications

2026. “Chronic Fatigue and the Politics of Diagnosis,” in conversation with Rouzbeh Shady, Red Medicine Podcast

2023. “Disability Narratives and Research Creation,” in conversation with Megan Moodie, Meeting Street Podcast (guest host)

2022. “The Incomplete Medicalization of ME/CFS” (5-min research spiel), Brown University, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, September 15.

2022. “Creating Coalitions: ME/CFS and MCS,” with Aaron Goodman, Chemical Sensitivity Podcast, May 19.

2022. On the Disability COVID Chronicles Project, with Mara Mills. NYU, May 5.

2022. Conversation with Jonathan Sterne on Diminished Faculties. Brown University, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, May 4.

2022. “Unraveling the Knot of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis,” research Q&A, Brown University, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, January 10.

2021. “When Fieldwork Makes You Sick: Debility, Access, and Fragmented Ethnography,” Patchwork Ethnography Webinar, June 24.

2020. Moderator, “Sick and Tender: Sini Anderson and Amy Berkowitz in Conversation,” February 24. New York University, Center for Disability Studies, Transcript available here.

Talks, Interviews, and Conversations Available Online