Disability Studies Now

Disability studies is no longer a brand-new field.  What are its generations, key debates, and current preoccupations?  This course looks to answer these questions by reading recent works in the field.  Works on the syllabus will include new works of scholarship, particularly those that examine intersections with such fields as critical race studies, ecocriticism, and the ethics of care.  We will also consider works of embodied theory that use life writing and creative nonfiction (in a variety of forms:  prose and poetry, film, comics, visual arts) to produce and refine knowledge about disability.  Writing assignments will reflect our reading methods by encouraging students to take disability as an occasion to experiment with the forms, as well as the content, of critical writing.