Contributors
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Rachel Adams is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her most recent books are Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery (2014) and the coedited Keywords for Disability Studies (2015). This essay is based on material in her forthcoming book, Critical: Care, Narrative, and the Art of Interdependency.
Neel Ahuja is Associate Professor in the Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is a core faculty member of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. He is the author of Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species (2016).
Judith Butler teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of several books, including The Force of Nonviolence (2020).
Matthew Chrulew is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media, Creative Arts, and Social Inquiry at Curtin University. His essays have appeared in Angelaki, SubStance, Parallax, and Biosemiotics, and his short stories in Cosmos and Westerly. He was founding Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Humanities and is Series Editor of the new Edinburgh University Press book series, Animalities.
Nirmala Erevelles is Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Alabama. Her research interests are in the areas of disability studies, sociology of education, critical race theory, multicultural education, and transnational feminist theory. She is the author of Disability and Difference in Global Context: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic (2011). She is currently working on a manuscript discussing disability within the context of empire.
Jan Grue is Professor of Qualitative Methods at the University of Oslo, working primarily in discourse analysis, rhetoric, disability studies, and the study of embodiment and normality. He is the author of several literary works. His autotheoretical memoir, I Live a Life Like Yours, will be published in 2021.
Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. He is the author of Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (1995), Female Masculinity (1998), In A Queer Time and Place (2005), The Queer Art of Failure (2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (2012), Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (2017), and Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020). He was awarded the Arcus/Places Prize by Places Journal in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment. He is finishing a second volume on wildness titled The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy.
Michael Lundblad is Professor of English-Language Literature at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture (2013), coeditor, with Marianne DeKoven, of Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory (2012), and the editor of Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human (2017). He is also the primary investigator of a research project funded by The Research Council of Norway (2017–2021), “BIODIAL: The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality.”
David T. Mitchell is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Washington University. He has published six scholarly books in disability studies. His coedited collection with Sharon Snyder, The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability (1997), was the first humanities-based collection of academic essays in the field. The influence of that collection led to his appointment as a series coeditor of Corporealities: Discourses of Disability at the University of Michigan Press. In 2001, he coauthored Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse, which forwarded a field-defining theory of disability representation. His most recent publications include Cultural Locations of Disability (2006), The Biopolitics of Disability (2015), and The Matter of Disability (2019). He is currently completing a new feature-length film on Nazi mass murders in psychiatric institutions titled Disposable Humanity.
Sara E. S. Orning is a Postdoctoral Fellow on the project “BIODIAL: The Bio-politics of Disability, Illness, and Animality” and a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Oslo. She works on how monstrosity and humanness emerge and are produced with...
