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Please consider submitting to our panel for the 2014 MLA, to be held in Chicago, January 9-12

Illness and Disability Memoir as Embodied Knowledge

Sponsored by  MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession

Life writing about illness and disability as a form of theoretical knowledge.  New ways of conceiving the relationship of memoir to embodiment, environment, and community. 500 word abstracts by 8 March 2013; Rachel Adams (rea15@columbia.edu) and Helen Deutsch (hdeutsch@humnet.ucla.edu)