Forms of Affiliation
I am currently at work on my first academic book, entitled Forms of Affiliation: Disability Life Writing and the Socialization of Care, which considers how disability life writing (by writers ranging from Audre Lorde and Anne Boyer to Sarah Schulman and Essex Hemphill to Eli Clare) counters the neoliberal privatization of care within the enclosure of the normative family by imagining the socialization of care through the formalization of networked relations of affiliation.
I am currently at work on my first academic book, entitled Forms of Affiliation: Disability Life Writing and the Socialization of Care, which considers how disability life writing (by writers ranging from Audre Lorde and Anne Boyer to Sarah Schulman and Essex Hemphill to Eli Clare) counters the neoliberal privatization of care within the enclosure of the normative family by imagining the socialization of care through the formalization of networked relations of affiliation.
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Depression and Popular Music I am presently at work on a number of journal articles that consider how contemporary female pop singers reimagine biomedical understandings of depression through their feminist politics. I focus on the lived experiences and musical performances of singers like Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo, tracing their depressed feelings to the gendered experience of chronic isolation and loneliness - what I refer to as, "social defeat." I reveal that these singers protect themselves against the development of depression through the social support of a sisterhood that radically expands the notion of kinship. |
Narrative Prosthesis After 25 Years
I am co-editing (with Christina Fogarasi) a special issue of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies that will offer a critical reassessment of David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder’s foundational concept of “narrative prosthesis” after twenty-five years.