Disability Studies

Affiliated Faculty

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Full-time Faculty

Rachel Adams

Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Provost's Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Disability Studies

Health and Humanities

History of Science

Food and Sustainability

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies

20th and 21st Century

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

American and the Americas

Medical Humanities

Science and Environmental Studies

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Faculty Emeriti

Christopher Baswell

Professor Emeritus, English, Barnard College

Research Interests

Medieval Literature

Manuscript Studies

Classical Tradition

Disability Studies

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Affiliated Graduate Students

Sophia Featherstone

PhD Student

Research Interests

19th Century British Literature, Environmental Humanities, Disability Studies, Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism, Material Culture/ Object Studies

Justin Huwe

PhD Student

Research Interests

20th-Century British literature and culture, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Theatre, Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, Drama, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Disability Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory

Ashley Leader

PhD Student

Research Interests

Medieval Literature, Comparative Literature and Translation, Disability Studies, Queer Theory

Ruby Lark Mendelsund

PhD Student

Research Interests

Global Anglophone, Creative Writing, Creative-Critical, Affect Theory, Disability Studies, Science and Environmental Studies, Medical Humanities, Psychoanlaysis, Madness Studies