Written by Elisa Shaholli, Mina Keleş, Sude Kılınç, Hayel Yelek, and Duru Urer Elisa: Instructor’s Introduction For the past six months, I’ve been living in Izmir, Türkiye as part of the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Program. For Fulbright, I’m completing the English Teaching Assistantship (more commonly known as the Fulbright ETA) where I’ve been placed atContinue reading “Exploring Disability Studies in Turkey”
Category Archives: The Classroom
Response to the New York Times: The Intersection Of Dance and Audio Description
Written by Madison Bigelow, with Support from the DAC Team In recent news, The New York Times published an article entitled “Hear the Dance: Audio Description Comes of Age,” meant to highlight the advances in accessibility that dance performances have experienced as of late. I really have a soft spot for dance– I grew upContinue reading “Response to the New York Times: The Intersection Of Dance and Audio Description”
“Separating” Race/Gender/Disability in Willow Weep for Me
Written by Madison Bigelow, with support from the DAC Team For my third annotation, I chose to borrow the race/gender/disability triangle that we worked with when reading Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom and apply it to Nana-Ama Danquah’s Willow Weep for Me. While I believe that it could have been reasonably assumed that withoutContinue reading ““Separating” Race/Gender/Disability in Willow Weep for Me”
Michael Orsini: Towards a Politics of Embodied Expertise (Social Movements, Knowledge, and Felt Politics)
Written by Hannah Dang with support from the DAC Team “Towards a Politics of Embodied Expertise Social Movements, Knowledge, and Felt Politics” Presented by Professor Michael Orsini, University of Ottawa Wednesday, March 20, 2024 4:00–5:30 P.M. UConn Storrs Campus, Susan V. Herbst Hall, Room 408 The University of Connecticut’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies DepartmentContinue reading “Michael Orsini: Towards a Politics of Embodied Expertise (Social Movements, Knowledge, and Felt Politics)”
A Collection From “Feminist Disability Studies”
In the Fall 2023 course Feminist Disability Studies (WGSS 3257), students learned all about how disability is a social and political category, charted how some of the beginnings of the field of disability studies could be found in feminist scholarship, and how the merging and cross-pollination of feminist scholarship and disability studies has changed overContinue reading “A Collection From “Feminist Disability Studies””
Disability in Mythology
Written by Hannah Dang, with support from the DAC Team PROLOGUE: At the dawn of human civilization, people spun stories inside of their heads, shared orally, and then etched out in writing. The practice of creating and sharing stories to reflect the universe hasn’t disappeared since. It was only a matter of time until storiesContinue reading “Disability in Mythology”
Baseball and the Deaf Community Annotation
Written by Troy Guidone, with support from the DAC Team In the summer of 2023, I had the pleasure to meet Brenda Brueggemann and the opportunity to take her class Disability Narratives at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. An ongoing part of the class was an assignment Brenda was trying for the firstContinue reading “Baseball and the Deaf Community Annotation”
News Chat: A Classroom Activity for Disability Studies
Written by Psyche Ready, with support of the DAC team. This essay is about the “News Chat,” an assignment I developed a few years ago that was an unexpectedly amazing addition to a class I’m teaching now at UConn, “Disability in American Literature. The News Chat assignment is simple: find a news article on aContinue reading “News Chat: A Classroom Activity for Disability Studies”
MTS @ Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Exhibition
Written by Madison Bigelow and Ashten Carter, with support of the DAC team. On October 18th, the Mansfield Training School-UConn Memorial Project team presented research at the University of Connecticut’s Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Exhibition. Led by Ally LeMaster and Lillian Stockford, and assisted by Ashten Carter and Madison Bigelow, members of the team sharedContinue reading “MTS @ Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Exhibition”
Generational Melancholia
Written by Paula Mock, with support from the DAC team Content Warnings: Suicide, institutional abuse/trauma, details of mental health diagnoses “Well, you know your great-grandmother had been in an institution in the fifties, right?” My uncle Erich, my mom, and I were sitting around in Erich’s living room, surrounded by fancy furniture and glass figurinesContinue reading “Generational Melancholia”
Disability & Access Collective 