Role: Professor of English, Emory University

  Contact: rgarlan@emory.edu

 Scholarship:
Disability Studies | Bioethics | Women's Studies | American Literature and Culture

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Disability Studies Initiative at Emory University. Her fields of study are disability studies, American literature and culture, bioethics, and women’s studies. Her work develops the field of critical disability studies in the health humanities, broadly understood, to bring forward disability access, inclusion and identity to communities inside and outside of the academy.

She is the author of Staring: How We Look (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature (Columbia University Press, 1997)
coeditor of Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum (Routledge, 2010) and Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (Modern Language Association, 2002)
and editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (New York University Press, 1996). Her current project, Habitable Worlds: Disability, Technology, and Eugenics, places materialist analysis of the built environment in conversation with eugenic practices and thought.