Adam P. Newman

MELUS 2013

Adam P. Newman — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:03:05 +0000

post forthcoming

Kemp Malone Lecture and Seminar 2013: Rachel Adams

Adam P. Newman — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:53:14 +0000

I am quite excited to announce that on March 21 and 22, Emory University will be hosting Professor Rachel Adams of Columbia University for the 2013 Kemp Malone Lecture. While here, Professor Adams will participate in the following events:

On Thursday, March 21^th at12 p.m., Professor Adams will lead a seminar on memoir and disability. Readings will be short selections from books in the Corporealities: Discourses of Disability series, including Tobin Siebers’ Disability Theory and G. Thomas Couser’s Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing, as well as an excerpt for Professor Adams forthcoming book Aiming High Enough: A Memoir (Yale University Press 2013). We will meet in the Woodruff Library’s Research Commons. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Guy Conn at gjconn@emory.edu to receive the readings.

On Thursday, March 21^that 4 p.m., Professor Adams will deliver her keynote address, “Forbidden Intimacies: Sexuality & Intellectual Disability,” in the Few Multipurpose Room G27, immediately followed by a brief reception and refreshments.

Finally, on Friday, March 22^nd at 9 a.m., Professor Adams will be joined by WGSS Professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson for a discussion on graduate student professionalization. Professors Adams and Garland-Thompson will give short presentations on their experiences with public scholarship, and will then open the discussion to questions or comments on professionalization, public scholarship, or other topics of interest in Professor Adams work. Breakfast will be provided. We will meet in the Kemp Malone Library, N301 Callaway Center. RSVPs welcome but not required gjconn@emory.edu

For more information about the Kemp Malone Lecture Series, check out these links:

http://www.english.emory.edu/graduate/kemp_malone.html

http://kempmalone.com/

Upcoming Conferences at Emory Spring 2013

Adam P. Newman — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:50:17 +0000

http://alienbodies.wordpress.com/

http://criticaljunctureconference.wordpress.com/

Disabled Faculty and the Ableist Academy

Adam P. Newman — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:39:46 +0000

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/17/job-ads-physical-demands-raise-eyebrows

http://www.aaup.org/report/accommodating-faculty-members-who-have-disabilities

http://www.aaup.org/article/access-academy#.UPhvTrakU0M

http://storify.com/GeorgeOnline/disability-studies-the-mla-and-the-aaup-report-ac

http://www.aaup.org/article/extreme-bold-faculty-ranks#.UPgLwPKKySo

Publication News

Adam P. Newman — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 03:50:49 +0000

Exciting News! My two book reviews that were accepted by Callaloo and DSQ have finally seen the light of day and I thought I’d post the links to them for any interested parties (though you need access to Project MUSE to get to Callaloo). Hope you enjoy them!

Introducing Black Disability Studies: A Modest Beginning (Review of Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions. Ed. Christopher M. Bell)

Conjoined Twins in Black and White: The Lives of Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton (review)

Senior Hire in Disability Studies

Adam P. Newman — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 03:49:25 +0000

Always exciting to see a Disability Studies listing, let alone one at a premiere university in the English department.

http://departments.columbian.gwu.edu/english/openings