The HIV/AIDS epidemic has impacted human life in ways that no other disease has in human history.   The reasons for this impact are numerous and discouraging.  The virus is spread through the intimate contact that defines itself.  There is no cure for it.  There is no vaccine.  In fact, even the thought of human trials to test the efficacy of va…[Read more]

Please attend my special session at the 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures and consider my new book, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA,  for your classes.  Help your students connect with the political system by codifying their own images of the future.

Greetings colleagues,

I am writing to ask for your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies.  I am looking to find respondents who both:

 teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate c…[Read more]

Disability and Interdependence

What are alternatives to the binary of independence/dependence in disability discourse? How might rhetorics of care illuminate and intervene in disability’s perception/representation? 250 word abstract and 1 page CV by 15 March 2015; Elizabeth Bearden (ebearden@wisc.edu).

Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Comparative Readings of Doris Lessing’s Historical and Speculative Fiction
for the MLA Convention in Austin, 2016.

Seeking comparisons of Lessing’s historical-realist-autobiographical to her speculative novels or stories, as these are often considered by critics to be separate areas or phases of Lessing’s wo…[Read more]