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Organization, Regulations, and Courses 2024-25


ENGL 55.17 Disability and Literature

This course introduces students to an emerging canon of literary autobiography and criticism devoted to the experience of disability. Critical works read in this course will cover such issues as physical access, ableism, neurotypicality, deaf political activism, and intersections of disability and other categories of identity such as race, class, gender, and sexuality. Major authors and texts to be read include Temple Grandin, Oliver Sacks, Thomas Couser, Simi Linton, Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Bartleby, Of Mice and Men, Autobiography of a Face, and Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night.

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:LIT; WCult:W

The Timetable of Class Meetings contains the most up-to-date information about a course. It includes not only the meeting time and instructor, but also its official distributive and/or world culture designation. This information supersedes any information you may see elsewhere, to include what may appear in this ORC/Catalog or on a department/program website. Note that course attributes may change term to term therefore those in effect are those (only) during the term in which you enroll in the course.

Department-Specific Course Categories

No course group assignment.