Ellen Samuels

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Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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Ellen Samuels is an associate professor and a founding member of the UW Disability Studies Initiative. She is the author of Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race (NYU, 2014) and her critical work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Signs, Disability Studies Quarterly, Feminist Disability Studies, GLQ, MELUS,The Disability Studies Reader, and Amerasia. 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 co-edits the NYU Press series Crip: New Directions in Disability Studies. She is working on three new books, Double Meanings: Conjoined Twins at the Millennium; Sick Time: Disability, Chronicity, Futurity; and Body of Mine: A Memoir in Genetic Sequence. Her research interests include disability studies; feminist/queer theory; 19th-21st century American literature; African American studies; body theory; visual culture; creative writing; autobiography and memoir.

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Visiting Scholar