Disability and Culture

Catalog description

With a view of integrating disability as a critical category into teaching and research, courses approach physical, sensory, and psychological impairments as well as bodily and mental differences in literary, visual, artistic, and popular forms across classical and modern periods. The main fields of study include world literature, art, film studies, philosophy, linguistics, history, and religious studies in conjunction with adjacent fields that help reconfigure the concept of ability and normalcy. Content will vary according to instructors.