Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

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Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Professor of English at Emory University with a focus on disability studies and feminist theory. [1] Her book Extraordinary Bodies, published in 1997, is a founding text in the disability studies canon. [2] [ failed verification ]

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Garland-Thomson co-directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on disability studies in 2000, which shaped the development of many scholars who now lead the field, and was a founding member and co-chair for two years of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession, which transformed the largest academic professional organization into a model of accessibility for organizations across the world. She established the field of feminist disability studies with seminal and definitional articles in feminist studies journals, including: "Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory", National Women’s Studies Association Journal (2002), which is reprinted in women’s studies and feminist textbooks and has been translated into Hebrew, Czech, and Turkish, and “Feminist Disability Studies: A Review Essay” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2005) which established a canon of feminist disability studies and set an agenda for future scholarship.

Garland-Thomson travels and speaks widely on the subject of disability studies in the US and abroad and has delivered major invited lectures and keynote addresses in: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Norway, Israel, Singapore, Sweden, Budapest, Canada, Germany, Iceland, Australia, the Netherlands, France, and England. Her extensive public intellectual work has advanced disability studies outside the university, including the following: images and ideas from her book Staring: How We Look (2009) [3] were translated into an art exhibit at Davidson College in 2009 [4] and was profiled in The Chronicle of Higher Education [5] ; she was selected as one of Utne Reader’s 2010 “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World". [6] [7] She has consulted and collaborated extensively about inclusion programs and initiatives with the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts, and the National Park Service on the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial; and her public scholarship pieces have appeared in well-known publications like The New York Times , [8] The Huffington Post , [9] [10] [11] [12] and Al Jazeera. [13] [14] She is also frequently interviewed on the radio, [15] for newspaper stories, and for documentary projects. In 2010, she received the Society for Disability Studies Senior Scholar Award [16] for her contributions to building the field of disability studies.

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References

  1. ↑ "Rosemarie Garland-Thomson". Emory University. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Extraordinary Bodies". Columbia University Press. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  3. ↑ Staring - Paperback - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson - Oxford University Press. Global.oup.com. 2009-04-17. ISBN   978-0-19-532680-2 . Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  4. ↑ "Disability Art, Aesthetics, and Access: Creating Exhibitions in a Liberal Arts Setting | Cooley | Disability Studies Quarterly". Disability Studies Quarterly. Dsq-sds.org. 34 (1). 3 January 2014. doi: 10.18061/dsq.v34i1.3288 . Retrieved 2020-11-21.
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  6. ↑ "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World — Features — Utne Reader". Utne.com. 2010-12-13. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  7. ↑ "Rosemarie Garland-Thomson: Author, Staring". Utne.com. 12 October 2009. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  8. ↑ "Opinion | Language of Autocorrect - The New York Times". The New York Times . Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  9. ↑ Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (10 September 2013). "Siri and Me | HuffPost". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  10. ↑ "Videos | HuffPost". Live.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  11. ↑ Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (21 February 2013). "Hot Sex and Disability at the Movies | HuffPost". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  12. ↑ Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (17 January 2013). "Sex Lessons | HuffPost". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  13. ↑ "Elegy for Oscar Pistorius | Opinions". Al Jazeera. 2013-03-14. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  14. ↑ "Faculty Opinion Writers Influencing Discourse | Emory University". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-03-29.
  15. ↑ "Eliminate Disability? | Pushing Limits". Pushinglimits.i941.net. 2014-08-28. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  16. ↑ "SDS Senior Scholar | Society for Disability Studies". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-29.
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