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1980
Johns Hopkins University. Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
1976
University of California at Irvine. School of Criticism and Theory. Summer session
State University of New York at Binghamton. M.A. in Comparative Literature. Major in Critical Theory
1975
The University of Wisconsin at Madison. B.A. in Comparative Literature
(with distinction)
2004 to Present
V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor of Literary and Cultural Criticism
1989 to Present
Profesor of English Language and Literature, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
2000 to 2008
Chair, The Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
2000 to 2008
Director, The Global Ethnic Literatures Seminar, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
1998 to 1999
Interim Chair, Department of English Language and Literature, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
1993 to 1994, 1988 to 1989
Visiting Scholar, Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliqué, L'Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
1987
Acting Director, Program in Comparative Literature, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
1983-1986
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
1980-1983
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows, The University of Michigan
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2009
Distinguished Diversity Scholarship and Engagement Award, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan
2001
Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan
1993
1996-1997
Steelcase Research Professor, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
Office of the Vice President for Research Grant, University of Michigan
1988-1989
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1980-1983
Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows
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2009
ZERBROCHENE SCHÖNHEIT:
ESSAYS ÜBER KUNST, ÄSTHETIK UND BEHINDERUNG
Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
2008
DISABILITY THEORY
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
2000
THE MIRROR OF MEDUSA.
Second edition: Cybereditions, 2000.
1999
AMONG MEN.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
1998
THE SUBJECT AND OTHER SUBJECTS: ON ETHICAL, AESTHETIC, AND POLITICAL IDENTITY.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
1993
COLD WAR CRITICISM AND THE POLITICS OF SKEPTICISM.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
1992
MORALS AND STORIES.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
1988
THE ETHICS OF CRITICISM.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
1984
THE ROMANTIC FANTASTIC.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
1983
THE MIRROR OF MEDUSA.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
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2007
"Disability and the Right to Have Rights." DISABILITY STUDIES QUARTERLY 27.1-2 (2007).
2006
"Disability Aesthetics." JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS THEORY 7.2 (2006): 63-73.
2004
"Words Stare Like a Glass Eye: From Literary to Visual to Disability Studies and Back Again." PMLA 119.5 (2004): 1315-24.
"Disability as Masquerade." LITERATURE AND MEDICINE 23.1 (2004): 1-22.
2003
"What Can Disability Studies Learn from the Culture Wars?"
CULTURAL CRITIQUE 55 (2003): 182-216.
2002
"Broken Beauty: Disability and Art Vandalism."
MICHIGAN QUARTERLY REVIEW 41.2 (2002): 223-45.
2001
"Disability in Theory: From Social Construction to the New Realism of the Body."
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY 13.4 (2001): 737-54.
1998
"Kant and the Politics of Beauty."
PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE 22.1 (1998): 31-50.
1998
"My Withered Limb."
MICHIGAN QUARTERLY REVIEW 37.2 (1998): 196-205.
1995
" Philosophy and Its Other-Violence ."
ANTHROPOETICS 1.2 (1995).
1994
"Ethics ad Nauseam."
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY 6.4 (1994): 756-78.
1993
"Reading for Character: Where It Was, I Must Come to Be."
SEMIOTICA 96.3-4 (1993): 335-52.
1992
"Cold War Criticism."
COMMON KNOWLEDGE 1.3 (1992): 60-90.
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Invited Lecture
"Shaping Your Career - A Look Ahead," Professional Workshop for HBCU Faculty, Women's Research and Resource Center, Spelman College, January 27, 2007.
Keynote Speaker
"Diswonder," Colloquium: Powers of Wonder, Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder, March 9-10, 2006.
Invited Lecture
"Disability Studies and the Future of Identity Politics," Comparative Literature, Washington University, October 18, 2005.
Invited Lectures
"Disability Aesthetics," Conference on Disability Studies and the University, Sponsored by MLA and Emory University, Emory University, March 6, 2004.
"Disability Experience on Trial," School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, June 24, 2004.
2003
Invited Lectures
"Disability and Identity Politics,"Reading Identity: Literature, Pedagogy, and Social Thought, University of Wisconsin, October 10, 2003
"Disability as Masquerade," Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, November 13, 2003
"Disability Aesthetics and the Built Environment," Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University, December 6, 2003
2002
Keynote Speaker
"Broken Beauty: Disability and Art Vandalism," Phantom Scherz: Debbatten um den (im)perfekten Menschen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, May 30, 2002
2001
Invited Lecture
"Disability, Social Construction, and the New Realism of the Body," Conference on the Future of Minority Studies: Redefining Identity Politics, Cornell University, November 17, 2001
2000
Invited Lectures
"Disability Studies and the Culture Wars." Department of Disability and Human Development. University of Illinois at Chicago, October 12, 2000.
"What Can Disability Studies Learn from the Culture Wars?" Disability Studies in the Humanities. University of California at Berkeley, November 13, 2000.
1999
Invited Lectures
"Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body." Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. University of Minnesota, September 27, 1999."The Return to Ritual: Violence and Art in the Media Age." Berlin, Beijing, and Beyond: Cultural Politics Since 1989. A. D. White House. Cornell University, November 13, 1999.
19961997
Invited Lecture
"Identification and Visual Pleasure." Center for the Humanities and the Arts. University of Colorado at Boulder, February 14, 1997.
"In Praise of Doris Day." Evenings at Rackham: The Power and Pleasures of the Movies. Rackham Graduate School. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, December 11, 1996.
1995
Invited Lecture
"Allegory and the Aesthetic Ideology." Colloquium on Allegory and Cultural Change. Center for Literary Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, November 14-15, 1995.
1992
Keynote Speaker
"The Ethics of Anti-Ethnocentrism," Colloquium on Ethnocentrism in the Study of Violence, Stanford University, May 7, 1992.
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