Select Bibliography
Books:
Staring: How We Look. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Columbia University Press, 1997.
Edited Volumes:
Re-Presenting Disability: Museums and the Politics of Display. Edited with Richard Sandell and Jocelyn Dodd. London and New York: Routledge, 2010.
Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. Edited with Sharon Snyder and Brenda Brueggemann. Modern Language Association Press, 2002.
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. New York University Press, 1996.
In Progress:
Habitable Worlds: Eugenic Spaces and Democratic Spaces
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters:
"Misfits: A Feminist Materialist Disability Concept" Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 26, 3 (Summer 2011): in press.
"Roosevelt's Sister: Why We Need Disability Studies in the Humanities" DSQ: Disability Studies Quarterly 30, 3/4 (Summer/Fall 2010).
“Picturing People with Disabilities.” Re-Presenting Disability: Museums and the Politics of Display. Eds. Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, and Garland-Thomson. London and New York: Routledge, 2010.
Co-Authored with Moya Bailey, “Feminist Disability Studies.” The SAGE Handbook of Identities. Eds. Margaret Wetherell and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. Forthcoming from London: Sage, 2010.
“Shape Structures Story: Fresh and Feisty Stories about Disability.” Narrative 15, 1 (January 2007): 113-123
“Ways of Staring.” Journal of Visual Culture 5, 2 (Summer 2006): 165-184.
“Feminist Disability Studies: A Review Essay.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 30, 2 (Winter 2005): 1557-87.
“Introduction, Disability and Medicine: Beyond the Medical Model.” Journal of Medical Humanities 26, 2/3 (Fall 2005): 73-77.
“Staring at the Other.” DSQ: Disability Studies Quarterly 25, 4 (Fall 2005). Available online at DSQ.
“What Her Body Taught (or, Teaching about and with a Disability).” Feminist Studies 31, 1 (April 2005): 13-33.
“Disability and Representation.” PMLA 120, 2 (March 2005): 522-27.
"Welcoming the Unbidden: The Case for Conserving Human Biodiversity." What Democracy Looks Like. Eds. A.S. Lang and C. Tichi. Rutgers University Press, 2005: 77-87.
“Dares to Stares: Disabled Women Performance Artists and the Dynamics of Staring.” Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance. Eds. P. Auslander and C. Sandahl. University of Michigan Press, 2004: 30-42.
“The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: ‘Sad Fancyings’ in Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby.’” American Literature 76, 4 (December 2004): 777-806.
“Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory.” National Women’s Studies Association Journal 14, 2 (Fall 2002): 1-32.
“Introduction.” Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. Eds. Snyder, Brueggemann, and Garland-Thomson. Modern Language Association Press, 2002: 1-14.
“Seeing the Disabled: Visual Rhetorics of Popular Disability Photography.” The New Disability History American Perspectives. Eds. P. Longmore and L. Umansky. New York University Press, 2000: 335-74.
“Byron and the New Disability Studies: A Response.” European Romantic Review 12, 3 (Summer 2000): 321-27.
“Staring Back: Self-Representations of Disabled Performance Artists.” American Quarterly 52, 2 (June 2000): 334-8.
"Narratives of Deviance and Delight Staring at Julia Pastrana, 'the Extraordinary Body'." Beyond the Binary. Ed. T. Powell. Rutgers University Press, 1999: 81-104.
"Embracing the Unstable Body: Disability in Doris Lessing's Diary of a Good Neighbor." IRIS: A Journal About Women 38 (Winter/Spring 1999): 44-8.
"The Beauty and the Freak." Michigan Quarterly Review 37, 3 (Summer 1998): 459-74.
"Crippled Little Girls and Lame Old Women: Sentimental Spectacles of Sympathy within Rhetorics of Reform in 19th-Century American Women's Writing." 19th-Century American Women Writers: A Critical Collection. Ed. K. Kilcup. Basil Blackwell, 1998: 128-45.
“Body Criticism as a Context for Disability Studies.” Disability Studies Quarterly 17, 4 (Fall 1997): 284-286.
“From Wonder to Error: A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity.” Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. New York University Press, 1996: 1-19.
"Benevolent Maternalism and Physically Disabled Figures: Dilemmas of Female Embodiment in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps." American Literature 68, 3 (September 1996): 555-86.
"Integrating Disability Studies into the Existing Curriculum: The Example of 'Women and Literature' at Howard University." Radical Teacher 47 (Fall 1995): 15-21.
"Ann Petry’s Mrs. Hedges and the Evil, One-Eyed Girl: A Feminist Exploration of the Physically Disabled Female Subject." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 24 (September 1995): 599-614.
“Redrawing the Boundaries of Feminist Disability Studies: A Review Essay.” Feminist Studies 20 (Fall 1994): 583-95.
"Speaking About the Unspeakable: The Representation of Disability as Stigma in Toni Morrison's Novel." Courage and Tools: The Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship, 1974-89. Eds. J. Glasgow and A. Ingram. Modern Language Association Press, 1990: 238-51.