About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
After completing a BA in Linguistics at the University of York, UK, Phil Bayliss (P.D.Bayliss@exeter.ac.uk) trained as a teacher of children with intellectual difficulties. He did his Ph.D. in the area of discourse and integration, and since becoming an academic at Exeter University has completed research in the field of inclusion (particularly for children with autistic spectrum disorders), and performance for people with intellectual difficulties. He is Course Director of the Masters programme in Special Education, Disability and Inclusion and has supervised a range of Ph.D. students, latterly with an emphasis on poststructuralist approaches to understanding disability and inclusion.
Ria Cheyne (riacheyne@googlemail.com) is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University and teaches topics including cyberculture, science fiction, and the intersections of disability, technology, and identity. Her main research interests are popular and genre fiction, particularly science fiction, and representations of disability in literature. She has written for Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, Science Fiction Studies, and Extrapolation. She is currently working on a monograph on genre conventions and disability representation in contemporary popular fiction.
Dan Goodley (D.Goodley@mmu.ac.uk) is Professor of Psychology and Disability Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, Department of Psychology. His research interests circle around issues of inclusion, politics, and disableism. He has written a number of publications in Disability Studies and is currently working on An Introduction to Disability Studies: Psyche, Culture and Society. This book builds on previous writings around Deleuze and Guattari and includes considerations of other pro-/anti-psychoanalytic ideas.
Laura Hershey (laura@laurahershey.com) is a writer, poet, activist, and consultant. She is the author of Survival Strategies for Going Abroad: A Guide for People with Disabilities (2005). Her articles and poems have appeared in a wide range of publications. Both as an author, and as a leader in disability-rights organizing, she has worked on issues such as disabled women’s leadership, community-based support services, opposition to physicianassisted suicide, disabled people’s right to keep Medicaid benefits while working, visibility of LGBT people with disabilities, and crip literature. Her website is http://www.LauraHershey.com .
Anna Hickey-Moody (Anna.HickeyMoody@Education.monash.edu.au) is a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is interested in how we can re-frame questions of social justice, and, as such, her research intersects across cultural studies of youth, disability, and gender. Drawing on philosophy and the arts, she is interested in how bodies marked as somehow being ‘disadvantaged’ might be thought in new ways. She is co-author of Masculinity beyond the Metropolis (2006) and co-editor of Deleuzian Encounters (2007).
Petra Kuppers (petra@umich.edu) is a disability-culture activist, a community dance artist, and Associate Professor of English, Theater and Dance and Women’s Studies at the University [End Page 305] of Michigan. Her books include Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge (2003), The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art (2007), Community Performance: An Introduction (2007), and Cripple Poetics: A Love Story, a collaboration with Neil Marcus and Lisa Steichmann (2008). She is also Artistic Director of The Olimpias, a project-based artist collaborative ( www.olimpias.org ).
Stuart Murray (S.F.Murray@leeds.ac.uk) is Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film in the School of English at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination (2008) and the co-editor of Liverpool University Press’s Representations book series on disability, health, culture, and society. Currently, he is working on a book-length study of the relationship between disability, humanism, and post-humanism. He has a University of Leeds Teaching Fellowship to investigate cognitive difference in the classroom, the aim being to highlight the possibility of more flexible modes of assessment and to re-evaluate specific assessment methods and learning outcomes in relation to undergraduate teaching.
James Overboe (joverboe@wlu.ca) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Focusing on poststructuralist theory, especially Deleuze and Guattari, he has written for Body & Society, Literature & Medicine, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology...
