Just received word of approval for STS 3284: Technology and Disability!!!! This is now an official course offering and not a rotating topics course!!!! If you are looking to take STS 3284 during SPRING 2018, course sign-ups are open! The CRN is 20072 if you don’t want to go surfing through the timetable. We will…

After the Sit Out protest that a group of us staged on my university’s campus, to protest the university’s lack of accessibility in planning, as demonstrated by the new set of stairs without any marked or nearby ramped access, I stood in my shower and sobbed. I couldn’t get a hold of myself. I tried…

This summer has been busy with finishing up last details for an edited volume, proofreading my forthcoming book, and working on a major grant app. In the meantime, two of my shorter essays have found venues and been published: A blog post I wrote for IHadCancer.com about my chemobrain, called “Just Your Average Hard-of-Hearing, Chemobrained…

It’s actually the end of Spring semester now, and I am just getting to writing about the end of Fall 2016 semester. Whoops. My apologies! I’ve been busy writing up and submitting Tech & Disability as a permanent offering for the new Pathways undergraduate curriculum. So, I’ve been working on class-things, just not as publicly.…

We are two weeks in, and the students are fantastic. We’re already having conversations about intersectionality and sharing experience and knowledge with one another. With a variety of backgrounds and trajectories, our conversations have been expansive. We get some experts in on the ADA next week, so that should be a treat too. Field trip…

I can’t believe it’s less than a week away before I have the pleasure of teaching Technology & Disability class for a second time around. I am grateful to my department for letting me teach this again, and I have a paperwork to make this a permanent offering in the works. This class was such a…

Please mark your calendars for Friday, February 19th, at 4pm. Historian Dr. John Kinder will be delivering a Mullins Distinguished Lecture entitled “The Cripple Ceases to Be: War, Veterans, and the ‘End’ of Disability” in Surge 118B. This lecture is made possible through the CLAHS Diversity Committee and sponsored by the Departments of English, Philosophy,…

This class has been excellent. The material results of this class include: a graphic novella about prenatal diagnostics, ADA surveys of campus locations, a new design for adaptive ski harnessing, statistical data on disability in engineering curricula, many exciting potential units for classes (including units on the Friendly Restaurant accessibility project in Taiwan, technologies used by…