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:

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.

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