Rod Michalko

Rod Michalko is a Canadian scholar in the field of disability studies.

Michalko earned his Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from the University of British Columbia. ^[1] In 2007, he worked at New College, Toronto, where he designed a series of disability studies courses. ^[1] He has since retired from the University of Toronto. ^[2]

Michalko began losing his vision as a child and is now blind. ^[1] Until 2001, Michalko was aided by his guide dog, Smokie, which he has written about in The Two-in-One (1999) and Letters with Smokie (2023). Since Smokie's death, Michalko has used a white cane. ^[1]

Michalko is the partner of fellow academic Tanya Titchkosky. ^[3]

Books

Author

• Michalko, Rod (1998). The Mystery of the Eye and the Shadow of Blindness. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press. ISBN   978-0-8020-8093-6. ^[4]
• Michalko, Rod (1999). The Two-in-One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press. ISBN   978-1-56639-649-3. ^{[5] [6]}
• Michalko, Rod (2002). The Difference that Disability Makes. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press. ISBN   978-1-56639-933-3. ^[7]
• Michalko, Rod (2017). Things are Different Here: And Other Stories. London, Ontario: Insomniac Press. ISBN   978-1-55483-188-3. OCLC   961802486. ^[8]
• Michalko, Rod; Goodley, Dan (2023). Letters with Smokie: Blindness and More-than-Human Relations. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press. ISBN   978-1-77284-033-9. ^{[9] [10]}

Editor

• Titchkosky, Tanya; Michalko, Rod, eds. (2009). Rethinking Normalcy: A Disability Studies Reader. Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Scholars' Press. ISBN   978-1-55130-363-5. ^{[11] [12]}

References

1. Treleaven, Sarah (December 4, 2009). "Champion of Accessibility". University of Toronto Magazine. Retrieved January 8, 2025.
2. "Books – Rod Michalko". University of Manitoba Press . Retrieved January 8, 2025.
3. Michalko, Rod; Titchkosky, Tanya (2024), Mintz, Susannah B.; Fraser, Gregory (eds.), "Blindness and Dyslexia in the Movements of Everyday Life in Toronto" , Placing Disability, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 85–93, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-41219-6_9, ISBN   978-3-031-41218-9 , retrieved January 8, 2025
4. Bakker, J. I. (May 1, 1999). "The Mystery of the Eye and the Shadow of Blindness". The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. 36 (2): 305–307 – via Gale Academic.
5. Corker, Mairian (September–October 2000). "Rod Michalko. The Two in One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness". Canadian Journal of Sociology Online. Retrieved January 8, 2025.
6. "The Two in One CL by Rod Michalko". Publishers Weekly . November 30, 1998. Retrieved January 8, 2025.
7. "The Difference Disability Makes. Rod Michalko". The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare. 31 (2). June 1, 2004. doi:10.15453/0191-5096.3000. ISSN   0191-5096.
8. Lawthom, Rebecca (January 1, 2019). "Rod Michalko, Things Are Different Here: And Other Stories". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 13 (1): 117–119. doi:10.3828/jlcds.2019.8 – via Gale Academic.
9. Spies, Miriam (April 22, 2024). "Review of Letters with Smokie: Blindness and More-than-Human Relations by Rod Michalko and Dan Goodley (2023)". Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. 13 (1): 159–163. ISSN   1929-9192.
10. Fowles, Stacey May (December 13, 2023). "Letters with Smokie: Blindness and More-than-Human Relations - Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire . Retrieved January 8, 2025.
11. "Rethinking Normalcy, T. Tithkosky, R. Michalko, editors. Canadian Scholars' Press, Toronto (2009). 344 p." . Alter. 7 (3): 225–226. July 2013. doi:10.1016/j.alter.2013.04.011.
12. Holmes, Morgan (2012). "Review: Titchkosky, Tanya and Rod Michalko, Eds. Rethinking Normalcy". Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. 1 (3): 163–168. doi: 10.15353/cjds.v1i3.61 . ISSN   1929-9192.