About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Stella Bolaki (S.Bolaki@kent.ac.uk) is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Kent. She is the author of Illness as Many Narratives: Arts, Medicine and Culture (2016), and her publications on disability include a special co-edited issue on the American Counterculture in the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (2015); a chapter in David Bolt’s Changing Social Attitudes to Disability: Perspectives from Historical, Cultural, and Educational Studies (2014); and a chapter in Christopher M. Bell’s Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions (2012).
Leah Burch (sslfb@leeds.ac.uk) is an ESRC-funded student at the University of Leeds in the second year of a 1+3 PhD programme. Her PhD seeks to explore disabled people’s experiences of hate crime through the framework of intersectionality. She is a member of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University, where she is also an Associate Tutor and holds a disability studies MA. Her most recent publications on online disablist hate speech and educational policy have been published in Disability & Society and the Journal of Education Policy.
Harriet Dunn (dunnh@hope.ac.uk) is a Vice-Chancellor’s PhD scholarship candidate at Liverpool Hope University, where she is a member of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies and holds a disability studies MA. Her research applies the Tripartite Model of Disability to Art Education for individuals with visual impairments.
Ann M. Fox (anfox@davidson.edu) is Professor of English at Davidson College, where she specializes in modern and contemporary drama, disability studies in literature and visual representation, and disability and medicine in the graphic novel. Her scholarship on disability and theatre has been published widely, and she has co-curated three disability-related visual arts exhibitions: RE/FORMATIONS: Disability, Women, and Sculpture (2009), STARING (2009), and Re/Presenting HIV/AIDS (2014). She travels nationally and internationally to speak about disability in the visual arts and drama. A 2017–18 Boswell Family Faculty Fellow at Davidson College, she is currently working on a project entitled Adaptive Activism: How Disability Refigures the Cultural Landscape.
Ryan J. Haddad (ryanjhaddad@gmail.com) is an actor, writer, and autobiographical performer based in New York. His debut solo play Hi, Are You Single? was conceived and developed as his senior capstone at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he studied Theatre and Creative Writing. He has subsequently performed the play under the direction of Laura Savia at numerous venues and festivals, including Dixon Place, Bridge Street Theatre, First Person Arts, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and in The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival. He has performed original work at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, The New Museum, and The LGBT Center of New York City. His acting credits include The Maids and Lucy Thurber’s Orpheus in the Berkshires at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Noor and Hadi Go To Hogwarts for Theater Breaking Through Barriers, and television appearances on Bull and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. [End Page 257]
Leon J. Hilton (leon_hilton@brown.edu) is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. Before joining the faculty at Brown, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and received his PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. His current book project, entitled Collective Drift: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance, examines critiques of dominant scientific, medical, and social attitudes toward mental disability and neurological difference since 1945—from mid-century critics of the asylum to the contemporary discourse of neurodiversity—across a range of experimental aesthetic practices and forms (including theater, documentary film, and media and performance art). His research has been supported by a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, and has appeared in GLQ, African American Review, and TDR.
Victoria Lewis (Victoria_Lewis@redlands.edu) is a Professor at the University of Redlands and Chair of Theatre Arts. She is the editor of Beyond Victims and Villain: Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights. Recent publications include: “Hands like starfish/feet like moons: Disabled Women’s Theatre Collectives,” in Women, Collective Creation...
