About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Clare Barker (c.f.barker@bham.ac.uk) is Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. She is currently working on a monograph that examines representations of disability in postcolonial fiction and theory, and is guest co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies entitled “Disabling Postcolonialism”. Her articles on disability have been published in the Journal of New Zealand Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, and the Review of Disability Studies. She is Book Reviews Editor for the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.
D. A. Caeton (dacaeton@ucdavis.edu) is pursuing a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is intrigued by the somanormative dimensions of modernity, or how compulsory independence and autonomy are instantiated through both discourse and the practices of the body. In particular, his dissertation focuses on nineteenth-century France, the Institut national des jeunes aveugles, and Louis Braille to explain the ways that somanormativity is intimately related to nationalism, citizenship, and the creation of subject positions.
Tom Coogan (tomcoogan@fastmail.fm) teaches English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Leicester. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Leicester and his research focuses on disability and life-writing. He has written for the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies and for the 2009 edition of the Auto/biography Yearbook. He is currently working on a monograph on cultural representations of cerebral palsy.
Georgina Kleege (gkleege@berkeley.edu) teaches creative writing and Disability Studies in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Home for the Summer, Sight Unseen, and Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller. Her essays and short fiction appear frequently in such journals as Raritan, Southwest Review, and The Yale Review. Her current book project is entitled First-Hand Knowledge: Blindness, Imagination and Art.
Rebecca Mallett is Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, (r.mallett@shu.ac.uk). She is the principal coordinator of the Disability Research Forum (DRF) and a founding member of the Cultural Disability Studies Research Network (CDSRN: www.cdsrn.org.uk ). Her main areas of research include the negotiation of “disability” in popular culture and the constitution and regulation of interpretative strategies within Cultural Disability Studies.
Paul Marchbanks (pmarchba@calpoly.edu) is Assistant Professor of English at California Polytechnic State University. In recent years, he has published articles examining representations of disability in works by Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, and Liam O’Flaherty. An essay concerning representations of disability in Mary Shelley’s fiction is forthcoming in Illness and Disability as Gothic Monstrosity: Anxious Representations of Physical Difference, [End Page 109] to be published by McFarland in 2010. His current research explores the position of cognitively disabled people within the cult of sensibility recreated (and transformed) by George Eliot’s fiction.
Julie Avril Minich (minichja@muohio.edu) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Miami University, where she teaches courses in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, and Disability Studies. She earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese in 2008. Her research interests focus on the representation of disability in U.S. Latina/o, Latin American, and Spanish cultural production. She is currently at work on a book manuscript about disability in Latina/o American culture.
Henry C. Stewart (H.C.Stewart@IUP.edu) is a doctoral student in English Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an Adjunct Instructor of English at Centenary College of New Jersey and Warren County Community College. His primary research interests include pedagogy, disability studies, and postcolonial studies in Native American literature.
Amy Vidali (amy.vidali@ucdenver.edu) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Denver. She has published in Rhetoric Review and College English, and her recent work analyses rhetorics of gastrointestinal disorder and distress (to be published in DSQ). [End Page 110]
