About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Leah Burch (sslfb@leeds.ac.uk) is a PhD candidate in the School of Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Leeds and a member of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. Her PhD research is focused upon the understanding and experience of disablist hate crime, particularly in relation to the "everyday lives" of disabled people. Her previous research has been published in Disability & Society and The Journal of Education Policy.
Elizabeth Jan Jones (eljjones@live.unc.edu) is a doctoral student in the Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on fictional and autobiographical representations of disability in the Spanish-speaking world, including diaries, Latin American novels, and Spanish parental memoirs. Her work on Frida Kahlo has been published in the journal Disability in the Global South and appears in the recently published volume Disability Experiences. In addition, she has co-coordinated a joint-university working group on disability, health, and illness in Latin America and serves on various disability-focused university and hospital committees.
Maria Karmiris (maria.karmiris@mail.utoronto.ca) recently completed her PhD thesis entitled "Disabling Relationships: Exploring Encounters in Segregated Special Needs Classrooms." She is a sessional lecturer at Ryerson University as well as an elementary school teacher with the Toronto District School Board. Her published works in the field of disability studies are included in Theorizing Feminist Ethics of Care in Early Childhood Practice: Possibilities and Dangers (2019), Critical Disability Discourses, and Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
Teresa Milbrodt (teresa.milbrodt@gmail.com) received her PhD in English from the University of Missouri with a dual emphasis in disability studies and creative writing. Her work on disability, humor, and creative practice has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly and Western Folklore. She teaches at Michigan State University. Milbrodt is the author of two short story collections, Bearded Women: Stories, and Work Opportunities; a novel, The Patron Saint of Unattractive People; and a flash fiction collection, Larissa Takes.
David T. Mitchell (dtmitchel@email.gwu.edu) is Professor of English at George Washington University where he teaches Disability Studies, Cultural Theory, and American Literature. With Sharon L. Snyder, he has written and edited a number of books including The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability (1997); Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (2000); The Encyclopedia of Disability (vol. 5): A History of Disability in Primary Sources (2005); and Cultural Locations of Disability (2006). His most recent book, The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment (2015) analyzes crip/queer subcultures as social spaces of differentiation for the construction of non-normative identities.
Emily Jane O'Dell (emily.odell@yale.edu) is a research scholar in Law and Islamic Law and Civilization Research Fellow in the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School, and an editor for SHARIASource at Harvard Law School. For her research on Islam, she has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Harvard Fellow, an Edward Hewett Policy Fellow, an American Councils Research Fellow, an American Center for Mongolian Studies Fellow, an American Institute for Indonesian Studies Fellow, and a Columbia University Pepsico Fellow. She has published on disability in Iranian and Arab film, and is currently working on a monograph on Islamic law in Central Asia. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Al Jazeera, Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio (NPR), and Huffington Post. She has worked in the Middle East with disability activists, students with mental illness, refugees, migrant workers, and young cancer patients.
Rebecah Pulsifer (rebecah.pulsifer@gmail.com) is Field Services Coordinator at the Ohio Federation of Teachers. She is at work on a book tentatively titled Signifying Nothing: Intelligence and Intellectual Disability in Britain and Ireland, 1919–1983, which argues that mid-twentieth century authors used the social constructions of intelligence and intellectual disability to probe the nature of agency. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in Journal of Modern Literature, Studies in the Novel, and The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914–1945.
Liz Shek-Noble (shek-noble@swu.ac.jp) is a lecturer...
