Tobin Siebers
Professor of
English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan
Tobin
Siebers has been selected for fellowships by the Michigan Society of
Fellows, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the
Institute for the Humanities.
In 1999 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for "My Withered Limb,"
an
account of growing up with polio. His principal contributions to
literary
and cultural criticism have been in ethics. Other areas include:
- Disability Studies
- Aesthetics and politics of identity
- Literary criticism of the cold-war era
- Psychoanalysis
- Literature and anthropology
- Creative nonfiction
Siebers's
major publications include eight books
. He is also the editor of RELIGION AND THE AUTHORITY OF THE PAST,
HETEROTOPIA: POSTMODERN UTOPIA AND THE BODY POLITICS, and THE BODY
AESTHETIC: FROM FINE ART TO BODY MODIFICATION. See "Knocked Out," MICHIGAN
QUARTERLY REVIEW
(Summer 1997) for an example of his work on the personal world of men.
Works in
progress include books and essays on disability
aesthetics, aesthetics and ideology, and abject art and the media.