This website uses cookies as well as similar tools and technologies to understand visitors' experiences. By continuing to use this website, you consent to Columbia University's usage of cookies and similar technologies, in accordance with the Columbia University Website Cookie Notice
For the outsider, the uncanny is a lived experience. For a burns survivor, the uncanny is often an embodied lifelong existence. A School for Outsiders is a school for entry and re-entry: the School for Burns Survivors becomes the point of entry, providing a refuge for survivors, designed to facilitate their re-entry into society. Their journey through the school becomes part of their recovery: a return from the uncanny; a home-coming and return to self.