Disability Studies
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.
Course Credit
- Course credit coming soon.
About Lisa Corrigan
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.