Books, Articles and Lectures

Books by Morbid Anatomy creator Joanna Ebenstein

• Death: A Graveside Companion (Thames and Hudson, October 2017) 
• The Anatomical Venus (Thames and Hudson, April 2015)
• The Morbid Anatomy Anthology, co-edited with Colin Dickey (Morbid Anatomy Press, 2014)
• Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy, with Dr. Pat Morris and a foreword by Sir Peter Blake (Constable and Robinson, September 2013)

Articles by Morbid Anatomy's Joanna Ebenstein

• 10 Death-Obsessed Books to Satisfy Your Inner Goth: The cofounder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum and author of ‘Death: A Graveside Companion’ offers a reading list for mortals, Electric Literature, 2018
• “The Birth of Venus,” The Morbid Anatomy Anthology, edited by Joanna Ebenstein and Colin Dickey, 2014
• Henry Wellcome's Anatomical Venus, Wellcome Collection Blog, 2014
• Curator's Choice: Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Museum Celebrates an Atmospheric Theatre, Dance Gazette, the Magazine of the Royal Academy of Dance, Issue 3, 2014 
• "Morbid Anatomy," Medical Museums: Past, Present, Future (The Hunterian Museum) edited by Sam Alberti and Elizabeth Hallam, 2013
• “Ode to an Anatomical Venus,” WSQ Journal (Volume 40:3 and 4), 2013
• Book Review of Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Samuel Alberti for Museum History Journal, Volume 5 Issue 2, 2012
• “The Rise of the Wunderkammer,” Pomp and Circumstance, 2011
• “Exquisite Corpse,” Confronting Mortality with Art and Science: Scientific and Artistic Impressions on What the Certainty of Death Says about Life, Pascale Pollier, Ann Van de Velde and Chantale Pollier, eds., 2006 
• “Eureka! The Forgotten Photographs of Fritz Goro,” V Magazine, 2004

Guest Blog Posts

• The Wellcome Collection Blog
• The New York Academy of Medicine Blog

Selected Talks and Panel Discussions

• Author Talk: Death: A Graveside Companion—Joanna Ebenstein with Jennifer Wright, New York Public Library, 2017
• Book Talk: "Death: A Graveside Companion, Brooklyn Historical Society, 2017
• Death, Beauty, and Metaphysics: Art, Science and Memento Mori in Early Anatomical Representation, Bowdoin College, 2017
• The Art of Making Salon, Conversation with Sukhdev Sandhu, Draper Program at New York University, New York, 2016
• From the Wunderkammer to The Museum of Nature: Exhibiting the Anthropocene: Panel discussion with Mark Dion, Joanna Ebenstein, Earle Havens, and David Harvey, Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2016
• Tedx Talk, SVA Theatre, New York, 2016
• Panel on Museums of the Future, Johns Hopkins University, 2015
• The Macabre as a Way of Life: Morbid Anatomies and the Grim Side of New England (with  J. W. Ocker) Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2015
• A Conversation about Art, Science and Anatomy as Muse with Laurens de Rooy, Vrolik Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2015
• The Lost Museum of Frederik Ruysch, Lost Museums Colloquium, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2015
• Keynote, Annual meeting of the Archivists and Librarians of the History of Health Sciences and Medical Museum Association, New Haven, 2015
• From the Anatomical Theatre to the Anatomical Venus: The Intersection of Entertainment and Edification in Public Anatomies, Vesalius and the Invention of the Modern Body, Saint Louis University and Washington University, St. Louis, forthcoming 2015
• The Morbid Anatomy Museum, NY Laser: A Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) Rendezvous Event, 2014
• The Thing Is... Morbid Anatomy, The Wellcome Collection, 2014
• The Morbid Anatomy Museum, Vesalius Continuum, Zakynthos, Greece, 2014
• The "Once-Alive and the Eerily Lifelike" at The Morbid Anatomy Museum, Naturally Hypernatural: Visions of Nature, School of Visual Arts, 2014
• On Facing up to Death Through Art, The Wellcome Collection, 2012
• The Secret Museum: Collections as Muse, Museum of Natural History, London, 2011
• From Votives to Venuses: A Brief History of the Human Anatomical Model, The Science Museum, London, 2011
• Digital Media and New Audiences for the History of Medicine, American Association of the History of Medicine Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2011
• Anatomical Venuses, Slashed Beauties, and Three Fetuses Dancing a Jig: An Illustrated Journey into the Curious World of Medical Museums, Dittrick Museum, Ohio, 2011; Listen here 
• To Every Man His Cabinet, Modern/Contemporary Art and the Curiosity Cabinet, Seton Hall University, New Jersey, 2011
• A Meditation of Morbidity, The Mütter Museum College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA 2010
• Anatomical Venuses, The Slashed Beauty, and Fetuses Dancing a Jig, UCL, Department of History of Art, Rhizome Research Group, London, 2010 
• The Private, Curious, and Niche Collection--What They can Teach Us About Exhibiting New Medicine, European Association of the Museums of History of Medical Sciences Conference, Copenhagen, 2010
• Anatomical Venuses and Slashed Beauties: Inside the World of the Anatomical Museum, Coney Island Museum "Ask the Experts" Series, New York, 2010 
• Morbid Anatomies and Anatomical Theatres: A Guided Tour through the Macabre World of Medical Museums, Adult-Ed, New York, December, 2009
• Not Just for Doctors Anymore—On-line Exhibitions, Contexualization, and New Audiences for Old Medicine, The Medical Museums Association Annual Meeting 2009, Ohio, April 2009
• The Anatomical Theatre: The Art, Culture and History of Medical Models and the Contemplation of the Embodied Self, “Lessons in Anatomy Made Easy" Conference, Museum Boerhaave, The Netherlands, November, 2008
• Anatomical Theatre: The Art and History of Medical Models: Exhibitions, Contexualization, and New Audiences for Old Science, European Association of the Museums of History of Medical Sciences Conference, Guthrie Lecture Series, Scotland, 2008
• Anatomic Theater: History of Museum Artifacts, Association of Medical Illustrators Conference, Indiana, 2008
• Memento Mori: Pathological Portraits, Anatomical Visions and Medical Museums of the Western World, Confronting Mortality with Art and Science, AEIMS/MAA Conference, Belgium, 2007
• Anatomical Theater: The Art and Science of Medical Museums in the Western World, in conjunction with the opening of Anatomical Theater: Depictions of The Body, Disease, and Death in Medical Museums of the Western World, UAB Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences, Alabama, 2007