Invitation to participate in the Symposium on “Disability, Intersectionality & Transnational Feminist Praxis.” Please share with your students and with other colleagues.
Sponsored by: Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
University of Connecticut
Organized by: Nancy A. Naples & Laura Mauldin
Date: March 29-30, 2019
We would like to invite you to submit a paper for consideration in the upcoming Symposium on Disability, Intersectionality & Transnational Feminist Praxis sponsored by the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. organized by Nancy Naples and Laura Maudlin, and to be held at the University of Connecticut on March 29-30th.
If your paper is accepted, you will be paired with one of our featured presenters listed below for a mentoring session to help advance your work as well as to share it with other participants. Please send your submission for consideration to Nancy [nancy.naples@uconn.edu] and Laura ([laura.mauldin@uconn.edu] by February 7th. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
We look forward to hearing from you, Nancy & Laura
Featured Presenters:
- Nirmala Erevelles nerevell@ua.edu
- Angela Frederick ahfrederick2@utep.edu
- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson rgarlan@emory.edu
- Jina Kim jbkim@smith.edu
- Angela Miles amiles@accessliving.org
- Akemi Nishida nishidaa@uic.edu
- Jasbir Puar <jpuar@rutgers.edu
- Sami Schalk sdschalk@wisc.edu
Bios of Invited Speakers:
Nirmala Erevelles is professor of social and cultural studies in education at the University of Alabama. Her teaching and research interests lie in the areas of disability studies, critical race theory, transnational feminism, sociology of education, and postcolonial studies. Specifically, her research focuses on the unruly, messy, unpredictable and taboo body – a habitual outcast in educational (and social) contexts.
Angela Frederick is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at The University of Texas at El Paso. Dr. Frederick is a qualitative researcher, whose interests include gender, disability, race/ethnicity, and intersectionality. She is currently working on research projects exploring the experiences of people with disabilities who experience intersecting inequalities, as well as the experiences and perspectives of under-represented students in the stem pipeline. Dr. Frederick earned her doctorate in sociology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2012. She was the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Article Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA) Sex & Gender Section, as well as the 2017 Outstanding Publication in the Sociology of Disability Award from the ASA Disability & Society Section.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is disability justice and culture thought leader, bioethicist, teacher, and humanities scholar at Emory. Her recent editorial, “Becoming Disabled” was the inaugural article in the ongoing weekly series in the New York Times about disability by people living with disabilities. She is a professor of English and bioethics at Emory University, where she teaches disability studies, bioethics, American literature and culture, and feminist theory. Her work develops the field of critical disability studies in the health humanities to bring forward disability access, inclusion, and identity to a broad range of institutions and communities. She is the author of Staring: How We Look and several other books. Her current project is “How to Be Disabled.
Jina Kim is an Assistant Professor of English and SWG (Study of Women and Gender) at Smith College. Prior to coming to Smith, she was a Consortium for Faculty Diversity postdoctoral fellow at Mount Holyoke College in the program in Critical Social Thought. She received her PhD in English and Women's Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in June 2016, and my BA in Studio Art and English from Agnes Scott College in 2007. My research lies at the intersection of critical disability studies, contemporary multi-ethnic US literature, and women of color feminisms. She is currently at work on a manuscript titled Anatomy of the City: Race, Disability, and US Fictions of Dependency, which examines how multi-ethnic U.S. literatures situated in post-Reagan cities recuperate the maligned condition of public dependency. Drawing together ethnic literary, feminist disability, women of color feminist, and urban sociological studies, it re-conceptualizes the pathologized cityscape disabled by anti-welfare policy, and positions dependency as an underexplored yet vital analytic for ethnic American cultural critique. Her work has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, the anthology Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities, and is forthcoming in the anthology Asian American Literature in Transition. In 2012, she received the Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies.
Angel Miles is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She earned her Ph.D. in Women's Studies from the University of Maryland College Park in 2016. Her research is focused on the intersections of race, class, gender and disability as they pertain to housing and other social economic disparities for women and minorities with disabilities.
Akemi Nishida uses research, education, and activism to investigate the ways in which ableism and saneism are exercised in relation to racism, sexism, and other forms of social injustices. She also uses such methods to work towards cross-ccommunity stolidarity for the liberation and celebration of community power. In her research and teaching. Nishida brings together disability studies, critical race theories, transnational feminist studies, among others. She is currently working on a book manuscript in which she merges affect theory with critical disability, gender, and race studies to examine state care programs as well as grassroots interdependent are collectives and bed activism. Nishida’s research has been funded by the American Association of University Women, among others. Her work has been published in Subjectivity, Multicultural Perspectives, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Occupy. Her commitment for disability and other social justices continues outside of academia as she works as a member of a national organization. The Disability Justice Collective as well as Chicago-based grassroots, AYLP. She is on the joint appointment with Gender and Women’s Studies.
Jasbir K. Puar is Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, where she has been a faculty member since 2000. Her most recent book is The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) published with Duke University Press in the series ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise that she co-edits with Mel Chen. Puar is the author of award-winning Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007), which has been translated into Spanish and French and re-issued in an expanded version for its 10th anniversary (December 2017). Puar’s edited volumes include a special issue of GLQ (“Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization”) and co-edited volumes of Society and Space (“Sexuality and Space”), Social Text (“Interspecies”), and Women’s Studies Quarterly (“Viral”). She also writes for The Guardian, Huffington Post, Art India, The Feminist Review, Bully Bloggers, Jadaliyya, and Oh! Industry. Her writings have been translated into Polish, French, German, Croatian, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Danish. Currently Professor Puar is completing her third book, a collection of essays on duration, pace, mobility, and acceleration in Palestine titled Slow Life: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts. ender and sexuality
Sami Schalk is an assistant professor of Gender & Women's Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. Schalk's first book, Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction (Duke UP 2018), explores how black women writers use the genre of speculative fiction to reimagine the possibilities and limits of bodyminds and challenge our conceptions of (dis)ability, race, and gender in the process. Currently, she is working on a second book on black disability politics in the post-Civil Rights era.