DISABILITIES WORKSHOP AT MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
The Muhlenberg College Faculty Center for Teaching Spring 2002 institute will offer a workshop, "Rethinking Disability in the Academy," May 14-16. The workshop, which is offered to faculty and managers in the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges, is not open to the public.Wednesday, May 1, 2002 03:23 PM
The Muhlenberg College Faculty Center for Teaching Spring 2002 institute will offer a workshop, "Rethinking Disability in the Academy," May 14-16. The workshop, which is offered to faculty and managers in the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges, is not open to the public.
The workshop will make a case for disability as a subject of study and as a category of analysis. A second goal is to help faculty discuss disability as a subject in ways that may help when they have students with disabilities in their classes, while providing a safe forum for discussion that addresses existing prejudices and misperceptions regarding disabilities.
Guest facilitators for the workshop will be Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Brenda Jo Brueggemann. Garland-Thomson is an associate professor of women's studies at Emory University in Atlanta, where her work focuses on feminist theory and disability studies in the humanities. She is the author of "Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture"; editor of "Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body"; and co-editor of "Enabling the Humanities: A Sourcebook for Disability Studies In Language and Literature."
Brueggemann is an associate professor of English and director of the first-year writing program at Ohio State University. She is the author of "Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness" and co-editor of the "Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities." She has been a member of the Department of Education's Partnership Project for Improving the Quality of Higher Education for Students with Disabilities.
