About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Michael Davidson (mdavidson@ucsd.edu) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. His books include The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (1989), Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word (1997), Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics (2003), Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (2008), Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics (2011), and Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic (2019). He is editor of The New Collected Poems of George Oppen (2002). He is author of six books of poetry, the most recent of which is Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems (2013).
Ina Dimitrova (ina.d.dimitrova@gmail.com) received her PhD in social and political philosophy from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology. Currently she is Associate Professor in social philosophy and bioethics at the Department of Philosophy and History, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Her research interests include disability studies, politics of reproduction and population, social studies of science, technology, and medicine. She is author of the book Prenatal Diagnosis and Biopolitics in Bulgaria (2013). Her current research and recent publications are focused on disability activism, disability history, and history of the psy-sciences in the socialist context.
Kristen Harmon (Kristen.harmon@gallaudet.edu) is Professor of English at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. Her work on Deaf Studies, disability studies, sign language studies, narrative studies, and critical creative writing studies has been published in multiple journals and collections, including Sign Language Studies, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Sex and Disability, Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability, Disability and Passing, and Signing the Body Poetic. She has also published fiction, including short stories in Deaf Lit Extravaganza, Wordgathering, The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked, and Tripping the Tale Fantastic. She is editor, with Jennifer Nelson, of two collections of Deaf American Prose from 1820–1930 and 1986–2010. Currently series editor for Gallaudet UP’s Classics in Deaf Studies series, she has curated, edited, and co-edited multiple recovered and re-printed manuscripts.
Chloë Hughes (hughesc@wou.edu) is Professor of Teacher Education at Western Oregon University, USA, where she teaches literacy, literature, and diversity classes. Her research focuses on literacy learning among individuals with disabilities, the portrayal of disability in children’s and young adult literature, as well as peace and social justice education. In addition to her contributions to the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, her work has appeared in the Journal for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Rethinking Schools, War, Literature and the Arts, and the WOW Review: Reading Across Cultures. She has served on several children’s book award committees including the International Board on Books for Young People with Disabilities, United States Board on Books for Young People with Disabilities, and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. Her current research investigates young people’s resistance during the Holocaust in juvenile literature and in reality.
Mohaiminul Islam (mdmohaiminul@gmail.com) is a PhD research scholar in the Department of English, Pondicherry University, India. His areas of interest are the Indian diaspora and disability studies.
Ujjwal Jana (ujjwaljn@gmail.com) is Associate Professor in the Department of English, School of Humanities, Pondicherry University, India. He has co-edited three books: Green Symphony: Studies in Ecocriticism (2011), Ecological Criticism for our Times: Literature, Nature and Critical Inquiry (2011), and Subaltern Vision: a Study in Postcolonial Indian English Novel (2012). He was a Fulbright visiting lecturer in Indiana University, Bloomington, USA in 2007–08. He was a visiting professor in the Department of English at Leipzig University, Germany, and at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa respectively in 2014 and 2017. He has been awarded with the Government of India Funded Project on Digital Humanities with Western Sydney University, Australia for 2019–21.
Rachel Kolb (rachelkolb@fas.harvard.edu) is Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is at work on a book manuscript about the cultural and literary values associated with sound and speech during the American nineteenth through mid-twentieth century, as informed by the histories of deafness and disability. She received her...
