About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Jon William Fessenden(jon.fessenden@stonybrook.edu) works as a music therapist on Long Island, New York, and plans to defend his doctoral dissertation in musicology at Stony Brook University in 2019. As a clinician, researcher, and advocate, he explores neurodivergent experiences through music and other expressive media.
Benjamin Fraser(fraserb2010@gmail.com) is Professor and Head of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Cognitive Disability Aesthetics: Visual Culture, Disability Representations and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference (2018), Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition (2013), and the editor of Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts (2016) and Deaf History and Culture in Spain (2009). He is founding editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, founding co-editor of the Hispanic Urban Studies book series, Editor-in-Chief of Hispania, and senior editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. He also serves on the editorial board of Disability Studies Quarterly.
Rebeca Lawthom (r.lawthom@mmu.ac.uk) is Professor of Community Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University. She co-directs the Research and Knowledge Exchange Health, Psychology and Communities Centre. She is an editor for Community, Work and Family. She writes into the critical disability field with colleagues and engages in participatory research with and in communities.
Crystal Yin Lie (clie@umich.edu) is a PhD candidate in English language and literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests include disability studies, life writing, graphic narrative, visual culture, and medical humanities. She is currently working on a dissertation that explores representations of dementia, time, and history in contemporary womens fiction and life writing.
Linda Luu(lluu@gradcenter.cuny.edu) is a PhD student in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests span affect theory, critical trauma studies, and diaspora and migration studies.
Malcolm Matthews(email@malcolmmatthews.ca) holds a PhD in interdisciplinary humanities and works as an independent writer and professional editor. His research introduces a rhetorical model of autism to examine expressions of Autism Spectrum Disorder throughout popular culture with a special focus on the portrayed "autistic techno-savant" at the cultural intersection of disability, race, hegemonic masculinity, and digital technologies. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Posthuman Studies and Science Fiction Film and Television. He has presented his work throughout Canada, the USA, and Europe.
Claire O'Callaghan(C.OCallaghan@lboro.ac.uk) is Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, where her research focuses on Victorian and neo-Victorian literature and culture, with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and queerness. She is the author of Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics (2017) and Emily Brontë Reappraised (2018), which looks to re-evaluate the reputation of the author who has been the subject of extensive retrospective pathologizing.
H. Rakes(rakesh@oregonstate.edu) is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Queer Studies at Oregon State University. Their research areas include queer theory, queer of color critique, disability studies, trans studies, and women of color feminisms—especially the convergences of these fields. They are published in Disability Studies Quarterly, the collection Why Race and Gender Still Matter (2014), and The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy. They are currently working on a book project called "Uni-versatile Subjects and the Alternatives of Critical In/Flexibility".
Cristina Visperas(mejiavis@usc.edu) is Assistant Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California. Her work examines the intersections of race, state violence, and the life sciences, and she has published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, the Journal of Neurosurgery, and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, of which she was also the founding managing editor.
