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Disability Studies
Interviews with scholars of disability about their new books.
October 20, 2026
Disability
Despite there being more than 16 million disabled people in the UK today, disability rarely features in mainstream accounts of our past. That absence …
October 18, 2026
Action Bodies
Exploring how digital visual effects have changed the representations of the body and identity in action films. When Harrison Ford appeared digitally …
September 27, 2026
Fitness for Freedom
Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing (Syracuse UP, 2025) explores the legacy of intersectional stereotypes of disab…
September 13, 2026
Implementing the Right to Decide Under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Implementing the Right to Decide Under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Supporting the Legal Capacity of All Persons with Di…
July 26, 2026
Light of the Everlasting Life
From disability metaphors to narratives structured around bodies presented as aberrant, early medieval English thoughtworlds conveyed the promise of r…
July 18, 2026
Disabled Power
A call to place disability at the center of climate and disaster responsesEvery disaster is a disability disaster, argues Angela Frederick. Disabled P…
July 16, 2026
Heart-Centered Connections
Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive is a transformative guide for working wi…
July 5, 2026
Neurodivergent Somatics in Therapy
A new paradigm that honors the wisdom and wholeness of neurodivergent clients. Focusing on autism and what is medically known as ADHD, neurodivergent …
June 28, 2026
Slow Violence
A powerful exposé of the American public education system's indifference toward marginalized children and the "slow violence" that fashions schools in…
June 11, 2026
Can I Say That
Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is your safe space to learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion, and how y…
May 21, 2026
Tales of Health
Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale (Liverpool UP, 2026) is about the way the Romantic National Tale …
May 17, 2026
The Secret Life of the Hotel
Hotels represent nations, hosting visiting monarchs, politicians, and diplomats. Hotels underpin global networks of travel and communication, on which…
April 30, 2026
Empathy Takes Action
Mainstream psychology has long accepted that some people (like those with autism) are naturally more logical and unemotional, while others (like so-ca…
April 3, 2026
Currencies of Cruelty
Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive (NYU Press, 2026) is a bold and incisive reconsideration of the relationship …
April 1, 2026
The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living
We often think of medieval medicine as strange, unhygienic and unscientific, but The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Katherin…
March 21, 2026
Twenty-Two Cents an Hour
In Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages (Cornell UP, 2022), Doug Crandell uncovers the harsh reality of p…
March 15, 2026
Hypochondria
Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story (Reaktion, 2026) proposes a bold reimagining of a frequently dismissed condition. Dr. Susannah B. Mintz reframe…
March 12, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…
February 26, 2026
A Light in the Tower
A Light in the Tower argues that excellent education and radical support for mental health struggles can coexist, and provides detailed advice for how…
January 9, 2026
Crip Negativity
In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as ac…