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”
Category Archives: The Classroom
MTS @ Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Exhibition
Written by Madison Bigelow and Ashten Vassar-Cain, 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”
18 Models of Disability
Presentation by Kelly Coons, with support from the DAC team Creator’s Statement: This video, created for an annotation assignment in ENGL / WGSS 6750 – Doing Disability Studies in the Humanities, aims to distill 18 models of disability through the lens of a question and answers segment. There is a dash of parody targeted atContinue reading “18 Models of Disability”
Our “Caws” for Disability Representation were Answered: A Review of the Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo and Netflix’s Hit Adaptation, “Shadow and Bone.”
Written by Hannah Dang, with support from the DAC team (The following image was found under the use of the Creative Commons license. It is a promotional poster of the Netflix adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse book series “Shadow and Bone,” “King of Scars,” and “Six of Crows” featuring Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov,Continue reading “Our “Caws” for Disability Representation were Answered: A Review of the Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo and Netflix’s Hit Adaptation, “Shadow and Bone.””
Dear Gifted Ones
Written by Brenda Brueggemann, with support from the DAC team
Why DAC?: A Personal Reflection
Written by Alyssa Carbutti, with support from the DAC team Recently I was asked by the members of my DAC team to participate in a group conversation about what DAC means to each of us. I gave a short answer, but I realize now that I really wrote about what I hope for DAC toContinue reading “Why DAC?: A Personal Reflection”
The “Difficult Choices: Disability on a Dirt Road” podcast
Created by Kate Youngdahl-Stauss, BreadLoaf School of English student, with support from the DAC team. “Difficult Choices: Disability on a Dirt Road” explores the very different choices made by two neighbors confronting severe illness in rural Vermont. An intimate portrait, this “podcast with pictures” highlights the tensions between the desire to stay in a belovedContinue reading “The “Difficult Choices: Disability on a Dirt Road” podcast”
Crip Camp Zoomed In
Written by Allison Kogut, a UConn student, with support from the DAC team At approximately 00:32:17 in “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution,” a group of campers have a conversation about how they are treated by their parents. In the 1960’s and before, disabled people were rarely mixed with nondisabled people on a day-to-day basis. Therefore,Continue reading “Crip Camp Zoomed In”
Video Reading Annotation of “Feeling My Way Into Blindness” by Edward Hoagland
Written by Allison Kogut, a UConn student, with support of the DAC team Presenting “Feeling My Way Into Blindness” by Edward Hoagland was a transformation into a blind eighty year old man. From my experience interacting with men around that age, I can practically hear the dry, sarcastic humor and whimsical reminiscence. Of course, withoutContinue reading “Video Reading Annotation of “Feeling My Way Into Blindness” by Edward Hoagland”
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