Disability Studies
On hiatus for AY 2024-25.
The Disability Studies Working Group is coordinated and funded by the Department of English.
Coordinated and funded by the Department of English, our group typically meets once a month. We will often host a speaker, share a faculty member’s or graduate student’s work-in-progress, or discuss a set of pre-circulated readings. In the spring of 2013, the disability studies reading group helped facilitate the Disability and Modernisms conference, which featured the work of Rachel Adams, Todd Carmody, Janet Lyon, Joseph Valente, and Susan Schweik. In the past, the disability studies reading group has helped to bring filmmaker Clark Matthews and scholars Margaret Price (Mad At School, 2011), Helen Deutsch (“Defects”: Engendering the Modern Body, 2000), Stephanie Kerschbaum, and Josh Lukin to campus.
If interested in joining, please feel free to get in touch with Caroline Henze-Gongola (chenze at sas dot upenn dot edu).
Past Events
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Discussion with Heather Love
October 10, 2016 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Elliot Simon & Brent Ruswick
October 4, 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm -
Visit to Library Company of Philadelphia
September 23, 2016 - 11:00am to 2:00pm -
Fall 2016 First Meeting
September 9, 2016 - 11:30am to 1:00pm -
Karl Steel (CUNY Brooklyn)
September 7, 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Xeno Washburne (University of Pennsylvania)
Autistic Gender Nonconformity: Navigating Narratives of PathologyApril 14, 2016 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm -
Jeff Brune
"Deputies, Vigilantes, and the New Geography of Surveillance in the Era of Disability Rights"October 5, 2015 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Discussion of the "Crip Class Project"; A Brainstorming Session
April 20, 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Josh Lukin (Temple University), WIP
April 9, 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Prodigious Pip: Black Infancy, Moby Dick, and the Medical Construction of Racial Kinship
Laura Soderberg (Department of English), WIPMarch 31, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm