DCC: Ellen Samuels

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility) / Free and open to the public

Citizenship on the Edge. Sex/Gender/Race: 2016-2017 Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism Program.

in partnership with the Alice Paul Center

ELLEN SAMUELS is Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the author of Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race (2014). Her critical work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Disability Studies, GLQ, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, The Disability Studies Reader, Amerasia, and is forthcoming in the anthologies, Disability and Media Studies,and Disability and Disclosure in Higher Education. Her awards include the Ed Roberts Postdoctoral Fellowship in Disability Studies, the Catherine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, and two Lambda Literary awards. She is working on a new book, Double Meanings: Representing Conjoined Twins.

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