Neşe Devenot
Board of Directors
Neşe Devenot, PhD (they/them) is a Senior Lecturer in the University Writing Center at Johns Hopkins University and a board member at Psymposia. Their scholarship explores the intersections between health humanities, psychedelic bioethics, and comparative literature, and their book project — on the literary devices that often structure psychedelic experiences — is under contract with Columbia University Press. Dr. Devenot’s psychedelic ethics research has appeared in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, JAMA Psychiatry, the Journal of Psychedelic Studies, Frontiers in Psychology, and Anthropology of Consciousness. They completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Neşe Devenot, PhD
Neşe Devenot, PhD is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS) at the University of Cincinnati and the Medicine, Society & Culture Research Fellow at Psymposia. She previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarship examines bioethical approaches to psychedelic medicine, and she conducts research on the function of metaphor and other literary devices in narrative accounts of psychedelic experiences.
She was awarded “Best Humanities Publication in Psychedelic Studies” from Breaking Convention in 2016 and received the Article Prize for best publication in Romanticism Studies from European Romantic Review in 2020. She was a 2015-16 Research Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Timothy Leary Papers and a Research Fellow with the New York University Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety Study, where she participated in the first qualitative study of patient experiences. She has presented on psychedelics at conferences in the United States, Mexico, Canada, England, France, the Netherlands, and Australia.