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Disability Studies
Interviews with scholars of disability about their new books.
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…
January 4, 2026
Activist Affordances
For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or …
December 2, 2025
Opium Slavery
During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, t…
November 22, 2025
Preserving Disability
A transcript of this interview is available [here] Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession (Library Juice Press, 2024) weaves t…
November 21, 2025
Unfurl
A transcript of this interview is available [here] A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, a…
September 27, 2025
By Touch Alone
By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture (U Michigan Press, 2025) by Dr. Vanessa Warne demonstrates how reading by touch no…
September 2, 2025
Counter-Cartographies
What if we embraced neurodivergent ways of being not as deviations to be corrected but as vital ways of inhabiting the world? What new realities might…
August 20, 2025
Racing Uphill
The book, Racing Uphill: Confronting a Life with Epilepsy (U of Minnesota Press, 2025), is a memoir and an educational resource, which tells the story…
August 3, 2025
The Social Impact of Automating Translation
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot, Associate Professor in Translation and Interpr…
July 21, 2025
Ungendering Menstruation
Ungendering Menstruation by Ela Przybyło discusses why and how menstrual pain needs to be incorporated into discussions of gender, embodiment, and dis…
July 8, 2025
The Man of Middling Height
What if our society’s deepest prejudices weren’t about race, gender, or sexuality—but height? In his groundbreaking allegorical novel, acclaimed Jorda…
June 25, 2025
Improving Quality of Care for Patients with Limited English
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Leah Karliner. Dr. Karliner is Professor in Residence in the Division…
June 21, 2025
I'll Fly Away
We all hope to grow old with dignity and some joyfulness. The intimate narratives of 40 extraordinary elders shared in I'll Fly Away: Stories About Am…
May 25, 2025
Inclusion, Exclusion, Agency, and Advocacy
Inclusion, Exclusion, Agency, and Advocacy: Experiences of Women With Physical Disabilities in China, With Worldwide Implications (IAP, 2024) explores…
May 12, 2025
Window Shopping with Helen Keller
Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture (U Chicago Press, 2025) offers a history of how encounters between ar…