Neşe Devenot

Neşe Devenot, PhD (she/they) is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS) at the University of Cincinnati; an Affiliate Scholar at the Center for Psychedelic Drug Research & Education (CPDRE) at The Ohio State University; and the Medicine, Society & Culture Research Fellow with 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 research focuses on the function of metaphor and other literary devices in narrative accounts of psychedelic experiences, in addition to studying bioethical approaches to psychedelic medicine. They have been teaching Psychedelic Studies courses since 2012, and they are teaching the field’s first course on Psychedelic Bioethics at The Ohio State University in 2022. They were awarded ‘Best Humanities Publication in Psychedelic Studies’ from Breaking Convention in 2016, and they received the Article Prize for best publication in Romanticism Studies from European Romantic Review in 2020. They were 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 they participated in the first qualitative study of patient experiences.