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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 5 hours, 10 minutes agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 5 hours, 10 minutes agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Melanie Jones started the topic CFP: Mad Scholars Anthology in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 1 month agoRecently, there has been an avalanche of news articles about spikes in mental illness on campus. Seminal works like Margaret Price’s Mad at School (2011) have begun to expose the ableism inherent in the university and prompted more open discussion surrounding the politics of disclosure.
As interest in this crucial topic grows, we are seeking o…[Read more]
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Jesse Miller deposited Antinomian Remedies: Rehabilitative Futurism, Towards a Better Life , and Kenneth Burke’s Modernist Equipment for Living in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoThis essay examines the relationship between modernist formal experimentation and rehabilitative futurism, the modern cultural fantasy of a hygienic future in which all illness and disability have been eradicated. Through a reading of Kenneth Burke’s early essay collection Counter-Statement (1931) and his first and only novel, Towards a Better…[Read more]
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Maren T. Linett started the topic Call for Papers, MLA 2020, Seattle in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 7 months, 3 weeks agoTitle: Disability Bioethics
Description & Requirements:How does thinking about disability inform our understanding of bioethical issues, broadly defined, in literature and/or culture? 300-word abstract to Maren Linett at mlinett@purdue.edu.
Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 2019
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Maren T. Linett started the topic introduction, candidate for executive committee in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 11 months agoDear all,
I’m currently on the ballot for the executive committee of the TC Disability Studies, and I wanted to introduce myself to the members of the group. I’m a professor of English at Purdue University, and the founding director of Purdue’s Critical Disability Studies program, which runs an undergraduate minor and brings in one speaker per y…[Read more] -
Olivia Banner deposited Structural Racism and Practices of Reading in the Medical Humanities in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThis article argues that the humanities and medicine fields have paid insufficient attention to race, which is reflected in and enabled by the apolitical nature of their cornerstone principles, their practices of literary interpretation, and their paucity of scholarship on writers of color. I examine the fields’ interpretation of Audre Lorde’s ill…[Read more]
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Stephanie Butler deposited The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave for the Out of Narrative Bounds panel organized by the forums TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies and TC Age Studies. This panel was chosen as representative of the presidential theme, Boundary Conditions. In this paper I use Jean-Dominque Bauby’s memoir, The Diving-Bell and the…[Read more]
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Elizabeth J. Donaldson started the topic CFP: Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health (15 Jan 2017) in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoWe are seeking essay proposals for a peer-reviewed edited volume, Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health, which will be submitted to the Literary Disability Studies book series at Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave.com/us/series/14821). The volume will collect disability studies essays that focus on mental health,…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Please Send Your Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoTC Disability Studies will hold an election for a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is r…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: Panel on Disability in Anglophone Literature (NeMLA, Baltimore, March 23-26 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoNeMLA 2017 – Disability in Anglophone Literature (Panel)
48th Annual NeMLA Convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 23 – 26th, 2017Deadline to submit abstract: 09/30/2016
Categories: Anglophone and British Literature.
Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
Institutional host: Johns Hopkins UniversityCFP: panel on “Disability in Anglophone Literature”
This…[Read more]
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Joseph Paul Fisher started the topic CFP–Disability, Athletes, and Athletics in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoOn the DL: Athletes, Athletics, and Disability is the title of a proposed essay collection that will read competitive athletics through a disability studies lens. Given the myriad definitions of “sport” across the globe, On the DL is interested in compiling a wide variety of theoretically-engaged analyses of sporting culture. In addition to…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Critic as Neurocosmopolite; Or, What Cognitive Approaches to Literature Can Learn from Disability Studies: Lisa Zunshine in Conversation with Ralph James Savarese in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoHave cognitive scientists misread autism? What happens if, instead of simply accepting such research, literary critics turned to the actual prose and poetry written by autistic authors, such as Tito Mukhopadhyay and Donna Williams? Literary theory may never be the same once it comes to terms with neurodiversity.
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Todd W. Reeser started the topic "Doing the Body in the 21st Century," Spring Conference in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months ago<div>Bodies can be collective, material, medicalized, biological, sexual, queer, trans, normative, political, racial, transnational, ecological, historical, useful, global, affective, gendered, disabled, surveilled, controlled, subjected, transformed, enhanced, engineered, empowered, organized, managed, discursive, aesthetic, translated,…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Disability, Contingency, Neoliberalism, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThursday, 7 January
120. Disability, Contingency, Neoliberalism
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies
Presiding: Susan Antebi, Univ. of Toronto
1. “The Biopolitics of Disability,” David Mitchell, George Washington Univ.; Sharon Snyder, George Washington Univ.
2. “Crip Figures: Disability, Austerity, and As…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Disability and Interdependence, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoFriday, 8 January
325. Disability and Interdependence
1:45–3:00 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies
Presiding: Elizabeth Bearden, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Disforming Cure,” Katherine Schaap Williams, New York Univ., Abu Dhabi
2. “‘The Servant . . . Formed Himself into a Sort of Crutch’: Disability, Dependency, an…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Queer Crips across Time, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoSaturday, 9 January
619. Queer Crips across Time
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies and the Forum TC Sexuality Studies
Presiding: Allison Hobgood, Willamette Univ.
Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Speakers: Cam Awkward-Rich, Stanford Univ.; Simone Chess, Wayne State Univ.; Petr…[Read more]
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP: LASA2016, DS Pedagogies and the Global South in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoPanel for the Latin American Studies Association, XXXIV International Congress
New York City, May 27-30, 2016Title of panel: Disability Studies Pedagogies and the Global South
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, LASA is organizing its annual congress around broad themes of the “evolution of Latin American studies,” the “challenges of cr…[Read more] -
Erin Lamb started the topic Seeking educators of undergrads who address aging in the classroom in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoGreetings colleagues,
I am writing to ask for your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies. I am looking to find respondents who both:
teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate c…[Read more] -
Allison Hobgood started the topic cfp: Disability and Interdependence, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDisability and Interdependence
What are alternatives to the binary of independence/dependence in disability discourse? How might rhetorics of care illuminate and intervene in disability’s perception/representation? 250 word abstract and 1 page CV by 15 March 2015; Elizabeth Bearden (ebearden@wisc.edu).
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