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Professor

Aetna Endowed Chair of Writing

English

Co-Editor of Disability Studies Quarterly.

Current Research

• Posting Mabel: an epistolary biography of Mabel Hubbard Bell (Alexander Graham Bell’s deaf wife).
• AktionT4: Economics,Euthanasia, Eugenics (a blog about the Nazi’s T4 program that exterminated over 240,000 people with disabilities): http://aktiont4.com/.
• Active & Accessible: Writing Moves for the 21st Century.

  A multimodal writing textbook with Lisa A. Blansett and Alex Gatten.

• The Aesthetics, Bioethics, and Rhetorics of Access in Art and Cultural Museums. Ongoing collaborative project with Rosemarie Garland Thomson (Emory University) and Georgina Kleege (Berkeley).

  Engagement with, and multimodal analysis of, disability “access” and presence (whether transparent or opaque) in major art and cultural spaces.

• The Cambridge History of Rhetoric. Steven Mallioux and Lu Ming Mao, Editors.

  Chapter on “Disability and R