Lennard J Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 335329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lennard J Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lennard J |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7234-1600 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Disability Studies Reader
In the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid Bare
The pandemic revealed the workings of biopower in relation to people with disabilities. In focusing on lives worth living, decisions were made based on metrics about the quality of life of various groups. Ultimately, the pandemic revealed the power structure lurking behind a rhetoric of “care and compassion.”
Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards: Disability Studies Then, Now, and When
The article deals with the early days of disability studies in the US and the development of disability studies in the humanities in the 1990s. The author reflects on his own involvement along with that of other disability scholars. In addition the article explores the failings of disability studies and ponders future directions in the field
In the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid Bare
Previous article FreeIn the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid BareLennard DavisLennard DavisPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore26 June 2020In regard to disability, the ableism that puts on a compassionate mask in milder times now reveals its brutal face. While laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act ack…
Czterdzieści sześć słów, które zmieniły historię
Introduction: Disability, Normality, and Power
We live in a world of norms. Each of us endeavors to be normal or else deliberately tries to avoid that state.We considerwhat the average person does, thinks, earns, or consumes.We rank our intelligence, our cholesterol level, our weight, height, sex drive, bodily dimensions along some conceptual line from subnormal to above-average. We consume a minimum daily balance of vitamins and nutrients based onwhat an average human should consume. Our chi…
The Disability Studies Reader
The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physica…
Disability Histories
Journal Article Disability Histories Get access Ed. by Susan Burch and Michael Rembis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014. xiv, 401 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $30.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 158–160, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw023 Published: 01 June 2016
Disability rights and wrongs revisited
The Disability Studies Reader
The Fourth Edition of the Disability Studies Reader breaks new ground by emphasizing the global, transgender, homonational, and posthuman conceptions of disability. Including physical disabilities, but exploring issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities, this edition explores more varieties of bodily and mental experience. New histories of the legal, social, and cultural give a broader picture of disability than ever befor…
Routledge handbook of disability studies
Asking an editor to review a potentially rival edited collection is a little like asking the fox to guard the henhouse. The henhouse may remain standing after the review, but its value might decrea
The disability studies reader
"The Fourth Edition of the Disability Studies Reader breaks new ground by emphasizing the global, transgender, homonational, and posthuman conceptions of disability. Including physical disabilities, but exploring issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities, this edition explores more varieties of bodily and mental experience." -- Publisher's description
Arguing about disability: Philosophical perspectives
Arguing about disability: philosophical perspectives, edited by Kristjana Kristiansen, Simo Vehmas and Tom Shakespeare, London, Routledge, 2009, 232 pp., £70.00, ISBN 0-4154-5595-2 This collection
Signing in Puerto Rican: A hearing son and his deaf family
Biocultures Manifesto
Research Article| March 01 2009 Biocultures Manifesto Lennard J. Davis; Lennard J. Davis University of Illinois at Chicago [email protected] Lennard J. Davis is a professor of English, disability studies, and medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directs Project Biocultures. He is the author of many books and essays including Obsession: A History (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and Go Ask Your Father: One M…
Biocultures Manifesto
Biocultures Manifesto Lennard J. Davis David B. Morris It was still a radical premise when New Literary History started in 1969 that the analysis of literature needed to consider history and culture. The stand-alone, value-free model of New Criticism made earlier attempts to historicize literature or to place specific literary works in their cultural context seem old-fashioned. Today, by contrast, it is commonplace to see literary texts illuminat…
‘Play It Again, Sam, and Again’: Obsession and Art
Working under the premise that disability as an identity category cannot be ignored when addressing the role it plays in the production of art, and utilizing postmodern or biocultural notions of disease, this article traces the history of obsession as disease in five ‘outsider’ artists: Adolf Wölfli, Jay DeFeo, Max Klinger, Mark Lombardi, and Judith Scott. To these ends, this article explores obsession as a culturally acceptable and even desirabl…
Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine (review)
Reviewed by: Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine Lennard J. Davis Susan Merrill Squier . Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 350 pp. Hardcover, $84.95, Paperback, $23.95. In a time that we may describe as increasingly biocultural, Susan Merrill Squier's new book, Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine,is a welcome gu…
The Rule of Normalcy. Politics and Disability in the u.s.a. [United States of Ability]
Who Put the the in the Novel? Identity Politics and Disability in Novel Studies
Criminal Statements: Homosexuality and Textuality in the Account of Jan Svilt— Eighteenth-Century Shipwrecked Sailor
Bending Over Backwards. Narcissism, the Ada, and the Courts
Crips Strike Back: The Rise of Disability Studies
The End of Identity Politics and the Beginning of Dismodernism: On Disability as an Unstable Category
Go to the Margins of the Class. Disability and Hate Crimes
Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body
n 1995, in the opening pages of Enforcing Normalcy, Lennard Davis noted that identity politics seemed to have left one form of identity unaccounted for: "there is a strange and really unaccountable silence when the issue of disability is raised (or, more to the point, never raised); the silence is stranger, too, since so much of left criticism has devoted itself to the issue of the body, of the social construction of sexuality and gender." 1 In t…
In the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid Bare
Previous article FreeIn the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid BareLennard DavisLennard DavisPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore26 June 2020In regard to disability, the ableism that puts on a compassionate mask in milder times now reveals its brutal face. While laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act ack…
Taking the Body Seriously
Arguing about disability: Philosophical perspectives
Arguing about disability: philosophical perspectives, edited by Kristjana Kristiansen, Simo Vehmas and Tom Shakespeare, London, Routledge, 2009, 232 pp., £70.00, ISBN 0-4154-5595-2 This collection
Biocultures Manifesto
Biocultures Manifesto Lennard J. Davis David B. Morris It was still a radical premise when New Literary History started in 1969 that the analysis of literature needed to consider history and culture. The stand-alone, value-free model of New Criticism made earlier attempts to historicize literature or to place specific literary works in their cultural context seem old-fashioned. Today, by contrast, it is commonplace to see literary texts illuminat…
Wicked Actions and Feigned Words: Criminals, Criminality, and the Early English Novel
Factual fictions: The origins of the English novel
Palestinian Society and the Exile: After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives, by Edward W. Said. Photographs by Jean Mohr
Palestinian Society and the Exile: After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives. . Edward W. Said
Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England
An Ideological Reading of Narrative
Left Politics and the Literary Profession
Why theory?, by Gerald GraffThe function of English at the present time, by Richard OhmannWhat am I doing when I do women's studies in 1990?, by Catharine R. StimpsonLiterature and politics: black feminist scholars reshaping literary education in the white university, 1970-1986, by Nellie Y. McKayWhat is the matter with Mary Jane? Feminist criticism in a time of diminished expectations, by Kate EllisCanon theory and emergent practice, by Paul Lau…
Taking the Body Seriously
Disability Studies and the Victorians
The Rule of Normalcy. Politics and Disability in the u.s.a. [United States of Ability]
Who Put the the in the Novel? Identity Politics and Disability in Novel Studies
Criminal Statements: Homosexuality and Textuality in the Account of Jan Svilt— Eighteenth-Century Shipwrecked Sailor
Bending Over Backwards. Narcissism, the Ada, and the Courts
Crips Strike Back: The Rise of Disability Studies
The End of Identity Politics and the Beginning of Dismodernism: On Disability as an Unstable Category
Go to the Margins of the Class. Disability and Hate Crimes
Introduction. People With Disability: They Are You
Dr. Johnson, Amelia, and the Discourse of Disability
A Voyage Out (Or Is It Back?). Class and Disability in My Life
Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body
n 1995, in the opening pages of Enforcing Normalcy, Lennard Davis noted that identity politics seemed to have left one form of identity unaccounted for: "there is a strange and really unaccountable silence when the issue of disability is raised (or, more to the point, never raised); the silence is stranger, too, since so much of left criticism has devoted itself to the issue of the body, of the social construction of sexuality and gender." 1 In t…
Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine (review)
Reviewed by: Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine Lennard J. Davis Susan Merrill Squier . Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 350 pp. Hardcover, $84.95, Paperback, $23.95. In a time that we may describe as increasingly biocultural, Susan Merrill Squier's new book, Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine,is a welcome gu…
‘Play It Again, Sam, and Again’: Obsession and Art
Working under the premise that disability as an identity category cannot be ignored when addressing the role it plays in the production of art, and utilizing postmodern or biocultural notions of disease, this article traces the history of obsession as disease in five ‘outsider’ artists: Adolf Wölfli, Jay DeFeo, Max Klinger, Mark Lombardi, and Judith Scott. To these ends, this article explores obsession as a culturally acceptable and even desirabl…
Biocultures Manifesto
Biocultures Manifesto Lennard J. Davis David B. Morris It was still a radical premise when New Literary History started in 1969 that the analysis of literature needed to consider history and culture. The stand-alone, value-free model of New Criticism made earlier attempts to historicize literature or to place specific literary works in their cultural context seem old-fashioned. Today, by contrast, it is commonplace to see literary texts illuminat…
Biocultures Manifesto
Research Article| March 01 2009 Biocultures Manifesto Lennard J. Davis; Lennard J. Davis University of Illinois at Chicago [email protected] Lennard J. Davis is a professor of English, disability studies, and medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directs Project Biocultures. He is the author of many books and essays including Obsession: A History (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and Go Ask Your Father: One M…
Arguing about disability: Philosophical perspectives
Arguing about disability: philosophical perspectives, edited by Kristjana Kristiansen, Simo Vehmas and Tom Shakespeare, London, Routledge, 2009, 232 pp., £70.00, ISBN 0-4154-5595-2 This collection
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