Like my work and my life, my writing resists neat boundaries. I have published peer reviewed articles, journalism, book chapters, and poetry. Writing across different forms engages different thought processes and analytical skills, all of which I find necessary to do my best work.
Selected Articles
Gatrall, C.E., McCoy-Harms, S., Auerbach, S., Lanshaw, N., Mehra, R., Franck, L. (Accepted) Doulas and Acompañantes: Non-Clinical Abortion Support after Dobbs. SSM– Qualitative Research in Health.
Gatrall, C.E. (February 23, 2026) Nursing Clio. “Professional” Program Redefinition Endangers the US Healthcare Workforce.
Gatrall, C.E. (2024). The Work of Race, Culture, and Ethnicity in Nursing Literature, 1970-1985. Nursing Outlook, (72) 5, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2024.102223.
Gatrall, C. E. (2022). After Fifty Years; Alums Anticipate the Impacts of a U.S. Supreme Court Decision that could Overturn Roe v. Wade. Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly. https://magazine.mtholyoke.edu/mthaq/summer_2022/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1805601&app=false#articleId1805601
Gatrall, C. E. (2021). The Rise of the Gynecological Teaching Associate. Lady Science. https://www.ladyscience.com/features/rise-of-gynecological-teaching-associate-2021
Walker, RK, Dillard-Wright, J, Leblanc, R, & Gatrall, C.E. (November 28, 2021). We will never meaningfully transform research-focused doctoral education in nursing without addressing who has power over its design and implementation. Medium. https://rachelkwalker.medium.com/we-will-never-meaningfully-transform-research-focused-doctoraleducation-in-nursing-without-fd5103ffb4d7
Gatrall, C.E. (October 29, 2020). “Marie Branch and the Power of Nursing.” Nursing Clio. https://nursingclio.org/2020/10/29/marie-branch-and-the-power-of-nursing/
McLemore, M.R., Tober, D., Stern, L., Asiodu, I., Eagen-Torkko, M., Wright, M., Draughon, Moret, J., Saint Louis, H.D., Hardeman, R., Howard, G., Tillman, S., Gatrall, C.E., Knutson, M. (2019, February 26). No Deal: Providers Sound Off on Trump’s Domestic Gag Rule. Ms. https://msmagazine.com/2019/02/26/no-deal-providers- sound-off-trumps-domestic-gag-rule/
Gatrall, C. E. (2018, October 29). Context Matters: A Case for Safe Staffing as Massachusetts Goes to the Polls. Radical Nurses. https://radicalnurses.com/2018/10/29/context-matters-a-case-for-safe-staffing-as-massachusetts-goes-to-the-polls/
Book Chapters
Gatrall, C. E. (2022). Madeleine Knows Best: Race, Culture, and the Discipline of Nursing. In J. Dillard-Wright, J. Hopkins-Walsh, & B. Brown (Eds.), Nursing a Radical Imagination: Moving from Theory and History to Action and Alternate Futures. Routledge.
Gatrall, C. E. (2021). Death and the Mother: Integrating Death into Pagan Family Life. In N. Jordan & S. Whedon (Eds.), Pagan, Goddess, Mother. Demeter Press.
Selected Creative Work
Gatrall, C.E. “‘Woman in the Second Pandemic August – Chequessett’ and ‘Sanctuary, Omega.’” Tendon Magazine, November 2022. https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magazine/sanctuary/two-poems/.