Disability Studies

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Disability Studies

HNRS 300H1-006

Lisa Corrigan

Spring 2025

M 5:30 - 6:45 p.m.

GEAR 258

Disability Studies explores disability and society using overlapping perspectives from the social sciences, humanities, science, and the law. This interdisciplinary course centers disability in historical and theoretical inquiry, engaging with topics and themes including, disability and: race/sex/class; civil rights; eugenics; care/kinship; intimacy; pandemics; crip theory; capitalism; education; madness/mental health; bioethics; the arts; and technology. The course tackles the shortcomings, harms, misinformation, and prejudices about disability that shape public life in the U.S.

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About Lisa Corrigan

Lisa Corrigan headshot Dr. Lisa M. Corrigan is a Professor of Communication and Director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Arkansas where she researches and teaches about civil rights, social movements and democracy. She’s the award-winning author of Prison Power: How Prison Politics Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation and Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties. She also edited the 2022 book, #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist and is currently a contributor to The Nation magazine.