Education
PhD and M.A. Art History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A The Ohio State University
Courses Taught
- BLS 241: Visualizing Disability
- BLS 340: Gender on the Big Screen
- BLS 340: Disclosure, Drama, Documentary
- BLS 346: The Art of Life
- BLS 348: Representing Women
- BLS 380: Women’s Voices: The Personal is Political
Research
My major research areas are the representation of disability in art and visual culture and the work of contemporary disabled artists.
Selected Publications
Books
The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art 2nd ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Winner: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award from the American Library Association
Re-Membering: Putting Mind and Body Back Together Following Traumatic Brain Injury. 2016.
Edited Volumes
Co-editor, with Elizabeth Howie, Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century. (Routledge Books, 2022)
Co-editor, with Elizabeth Howie, Disability and Art History (London: Routledge Books, 2017)
Co-editor, with Elizabeth Howie, Art History and Disability, Special issue of The Review of Disability Studies vol. 10, n. 3,4 (2015).
