The Medieval & Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquia: Jonathan Hsy, “Gestures of Inclusion: What’s a Disability Canon?”

Event time: 
Friday, November 4, 2016 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), 105 See map
63 High St.
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

This presentation draws from my current work on the cultural history of deafness in Western literature, exploring what role medieval women’s writing can play in shaping an emergent disability canon.

Jonathan Hsy is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University, where he is also founding co-director of the GW Digital Humanities Institute. He specializes in medieval literature and culture with interests in translation theory, digital media, and disability studies. He is the author of Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (2013), and one of his current book projects explores life writing by medieval people who identified as blind or deaf. He presently serves on the MLA Committee for Disability Issues in the Profession, and his publications on disability and digital media have appeared in Accessus, Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature, New Medieval Literatures, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and postmedieval. He blogs at In The Middle, a group medieval studies blog.

Supported by The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale University

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