Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

Disability as Method: Cripping the Archive

—CRS Dissertation Seminar

A seminar for dissertators seeking to learn and write about intersectional approaches to disability and early modern and eighteenth-century embodiment.

John Bulwer, Philocophus, or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend : exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips. London: 1648 (Case HV2377 .J15 1648)

Description

This seminar aims to assist graduate students in the early phase of dissertation writing who have an interest in disability studies and/or crip theory. No previous courses in disability studies or crip theory are required. The seminar welcomes dissertators who want to learn and write about intersectional approaches to disability and early modern and eighteenth-century embodiment more broadly – including projects that assess how disability intersects with race, Indigeneity, class, gender, sexuality, and so forth.