Carla Mazzio

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Carla Mazzio, an American literary and cultural critic, specializes in early modern literature in relationship to the history of science, medicine, and health, the history of language, media technologies, and the printed book, and the history of speech pathologies with a focus on the harmful social construction of the “inarticulate” person or community. Her research has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

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Biography

Carla Mazzio was born in Needham, Massachusetts. The youngest of four girls raised by Paula Collins Mazzio of Belmont, Massachusetts, she earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. in English from Harvard University. [1] She has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the University of Chicago, the Bread Loaf School of English, and the University at Buffalo [2] of the State University of New York, [3] and currently teaches in the Department of English and co-directs the Health Humanities and Disability Justice Lab at the University of California, Riverside.

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