University Spaces, Academic Bodies:

Keynote

Our keynote speaker will be Robert McRuer, Associate Professor of English at the George Washington University, where he teaches disability studies, queer theory, and cultural studies. He is author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (NYU 2006), winner of the 2007 Alan Bray Memorial Award from the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. He is also co-editor, with Abby L. Wilkerson, of Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies, a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. His current work focuses on disability, neoliberalism, globalization and counter-globalization.