Chair: Madeline Sutherland-Meier, University of Texas at Austin 

Adleen Crapo, University of Toronto,

             Exemplary Embodiment: Cervantes, Milton, andClassical Culture

Wendy Turner, Augusta State University,

Medieval Mental Health: An Overview

Jamie Kinsley, Auburn University,

Religious Poetry and the Voice of Chronic Pain in Bannerman’s ‘Ode III: To Pain’: Implications for Eighteenth-Century Disability Studies

Chair: Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida

Claire Laville, Emory University,

Apart from Experience: In Gertrude Stein’s Laboratory

 Stan Booth, University of Winchester,

Paralysis: From Care to Cure

Aimi Hamraie, Emory University,

Universal Design: Redefining the Range

Chair: Adam Newman, Emory University

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University,

Keywords: Not an Encyclopedia

Benjamin Reiss, Emory University,

Keyword: Disability

David Serlin, University of California, San Diego,

Representing Disability Studies

Chair: Jason Farr, University of California – San Diego 

Paul Kelleher, Emory University,

Deformity: Moral and Corporeal

Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida,

Oration and the Awkward Body: Satirizing Speakers from 1750–1790

Susanne Hamscha, University of Goettingen, Germany,

Crip Aesthetics: Failure, Negativity, and the Freakish Body

Chair:
Jamie Kinsley, Auburn University 

Corey Goergen, Emory University,

“Who am I! only a Freke!”: Contagious Monstrosity in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda

Jill Summerville, Ohio State University,

Bitter Weeds and Rue: Physical Desire and Desirability in Elizabeth Barrett

Clare Walker-Gore, Cambridge University,

“Am I Really Deformed?”: Disability as a Social Construct in the Novels of Dinah Mulock Craik

Chair:
Jared Richman, Colorado College

Eduardo Gregori, University
of Wisconsin, Marathon County,

Corporeality, Subjectivity and the Avant-Garde: Ramón Gómez de la Serna

Janet Ravenscroft, Independent Scholar,

Picturing Difference in Early Modern Spain

Madeline Sutherland-Meier, University of Texas at Austin,

Toward a History of the Blind in Spain

Chair:
George Gordon-Smith, Emory University

Chris Mounsey, University of Winchester,

VariAbility: Towards a Discourse of the Body

Sian Bride, University of Winchester,

Embodying the Abnormal: Exploring the Legality and Sexuality of Difference/ Disability Through the Tattooed Body

Amanda Cachia, University of California,
San Diego,

The Abject Disabled Misplaced in Contemporary Art

Chair:
Corey Goergen, Emory University

Victoria Brown, Northumbria University,

“Rendered incapable of use”: Competing Definitions of Disability Amongst Coal Miners in the North East of England, 1862-1936

Jason Farr, University of California – San Diego,

Seeing Sound: Deafness in the Early Eighteenth Century

Jared Richman, Colorado College,

Disabling Authority: Stutterance and Royal Elocution in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Chair:
Stan Booth, University of Winchester

George Gordon-Smith, Emory University,

Disability and the Middle Passage: Ambiguous Impairment and the Production of Dependence on the Slave Ship

Laurel Daen, College of William & Mary,

The Dis/Abilities of Martha Ann Honeywell: A Case Study in Self-Presentation in Antebellum America

Adam Newman, Emory University,

Rolling Through the Holy City on a Goat-Cart: Race, Mobility, and the Disabled Black Flâneur in Dubose Heyward’s Porgy