Ellen Samuels
Biographic Data
| ID | 274739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen Samuels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen |
| FAMILY NAME | Samuels |
| SIGNATURE | SAMUELS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time
In this creative nonfiction essay, the author reflects on how 'crip time' has operated in their life, not only as a form of liberation, but also as a site of loss and alienation
Speaking as a Deaf Person Would”
This essay explores Betty Quan's 1995 play, Mother Tongue, through the lenses of Deaf Studies, Disability Studies, and Asian North American Studies. I suggest that Mother Tongue, which is written to be performed in English, Cantonese, and American Sign Language, enacts a paradoxical unperformability through its multilinguality, yet also undermines that multilinguality through inconsistent moments of translation or lingual assumptions, such as the…
Examining Millie and Christine McKoy
Millie and Christine McKoy were African American conjoined twins born into slavery in North Carolina in 1851. Physically joined at the pelvis, they were objects of curiosity, inspection, and invasion from the moment of their birth. Medical and lay interest in their unique pelvic anatomy can be understood within the larger contexts of the nineteenth-century freak show, the pathologization of black female sexuality, and the complex dynamics of Amer…
Severely Queer Theory
Book Review| October 01 2007 SEVERELY QUEER THEORY Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability Robert McRuer New York: New York University Press, 2006. xvi + 283 pp. Ellen Samuels Ellen Samuels Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (4): 580–582. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-012 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Face…
From Melville to Eddie Murphy
Herman Melville's 1857 novel, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade has been closely examined with regard to nineteenth-century American politics, changing class structures, and the emergence of the “con man” as a contemporary trickster figure.11 In particular, Helen Trimpi in Melville's Confidence Men and American Politics in the 1850s (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1987) and Jonathan Cook in Satirical Apocalypse: An Anatomy of Melville's The Confidenc…
My Body, My Closet
Research Article| April 01 2003 MY BODY, MY CLOSET: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming-Out Discourse Ellen Samuels Ellen Samuels Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 233-255. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9-1-2-233 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ic…
Critical Divides
Critical Divides
Until 1999, major works in disability studies tended to ignore the influential body theories of Judith Butler, or to argue that her theories relied upon the disabled body as a constitutive Other. Between 1999 and 2001, however, a number of works have appeared which apply Butler's theories to disability. I consider both the original disregard for Butler and her recent adoption in disability studies to shed light upon possibilities for developing i…
Even My Hair Won't Grow Straight
The author narrates the experience of growing her hair long after years of keeping it short, and ponders the "the socioculturo-sexual implications of hair growth." While her lesbian friends respond with curiosity and doubt, the rest of the world,Including her grandmother, wants to see long hair as a return to traditional (straight) femininity
Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time
In this creative nonfiction essay, the author reflects on how 'crip time' has operated in their life, not only as a form of liberation, but also as a site of loss and alienation
My Body, My Closet
Research Article| April 01 2003 MY BODY, MY CLOSET: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming-Out Discourse Ellen Samuels Ellen Samuels Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 233-255. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9-1-2-233 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ic…
Critical Divides
Until 1999, major works in disability studies tended to ignore the influential body theories of Judith Butler, or to argue that her theories relied upon the disabled body as a constitutive Other. Between 1999 and 2001, however, a number of works have appeared which apply Butler's theories to disability. I consider both the original disregard for Butler and her recent adoption in disability studies to shed light upon possibilities for developing i…
Examining Millie and Christine McKoy
Millie and Christine McKoy were African American conjoined twins born into slavery in North Carolina in 1851. Physically joined at the pelvis, they were objects of curiosity, inspection, and invasion from the moment of their birth. Medical and lay interest in their unique pelvic anatomy can be understood within the larger contexts of the nineteenth-century freak show, the pathologization of black female sexuality, and the complex dynamics of Amer…
Even My Hair Won't Grow Straight
The author narrates the experience of growing her hair long after years of keeping it short, and ponders the "the socioculturo-sexual implications of hair growth." While her lesbian friends respond with curiosity and doubt, the rest of the world,Including her grandmother, wants to see long hair as a return to traditional (straight) femininity
Critical Divides
Critical Divides
Until 1999, major works in disability studies tended to ignore the influential body theories of Judith Butler, or to argue that her theories relied upon the disabled body as a constitutive Other. Between 1999 and 2001, however, a number of works have appeared which apply Butler's theories to disability. I consider both the original disregard for Butler and her recent adoption in disability studies to shed light upon possibilities for developing i…
My Body, My Closet
Research Article| April 01 2003 MY BODY, MY CLOSET: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming-Out Discourse Ellen Samuels Ellen Samuels Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 233-255. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9-1-2-233 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ic…
From Melville to Eddie Murphy
Herman Melville's 1857 novel, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade has been closely examined with regard to nineteenth-century American politics, changing class structures, and the emergence of the “con man” as a contemporary trickster figure.11 In particular, Helen Trimpi in Melville's Confidence Men and American Politics in the 1850s (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1987) and Jonathan Cook in Satirical Apocalypse: An Anatomy of Melville's The Confidenc…
Severely Queer Theory
Book Review| October 01 2007 SEVERELY QUEER THEORY Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability Robert McRuer New York: New York University Press, 2006. xvi + 283 pp. Ellen Samuels Ellen Samuels Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (4): 580–582. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-012 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Face…
Examining Millie and Christine McKoy
Millie and Christine McKoy were African American conjoined twins born into slavery in North Carolina in 1851. Physically joined at the pelvis, they were objects of curiosity, inspection, and invasion from the moment of their birth. Medical and lay interest in their unique pelvic anatomy can be understood within the larger contexts of the nineteenth-century freak show, the pathologization of black female sexuality, and the complex dynamics of Amer…
Speaking as a Deaf Person Would”
This essay explores Betty Quan's 1995 play, Mother Tongue, through the lenses of Deaf Studies, Disability Studies, and Asian North American Studies. I suggest that Mother Tongue, which is written to be performed in English, Cantonese, and American Sign Language, enacts a paradoxical unperformability through its multilinguality, yet also undermines that multilinguality through inconsistent moments of translation or lingual assumptions, such as the…
Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time
In this creative nonfiction essay, the author reflects on how 'crip time' has operated in their life, not only as a form of liberation, but also as a site of loss and alienation
Sociology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Disability studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)