Society for Disability Studies

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Ann Millett
Syllabus Art 553: “Visualizing Disability”

Lessons and Dates Readings

Lesson 1: Jan. 11-15 Why Study Disability? Linton, Foreward by Michael Berube, Chapters 1 and 2

Monday Jan. 16 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

Lesson 2: Jan. 17-22 Disability Studies in Society and Education Linton, chapters 6, 7, and Epilogue.

Lesson 3: Jan. 23-29 Disability as a Social and Political Identity Baynton, Douglas C., “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History”

Lesson 4: Jan. 30-Feb. 5 The Importance of Image Hahn, Harlan, “Advertising the Acceptably Employable Image: Disability and Capitalism” Goffman, Erving, “Selections from Stigma”

Lesson 5: Feb. 6-12 Narrating Disability and Disabling Narratives Davis, Lennard J., “Bodies of Difference: Politics, Disability, and Representation” Mitchell, David T., “Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor”

Lesson 6: Feb. 13-19 Disability in Film and Television Longmore, Paul K., “Screening Stereotypes: Images of Disabled People in Television and Motion Pictures” Shakespeare, Tom, “Art and lies?: Representations of Disability on Film”

Lesson 7: Feb. 20-26 Disability and Popular Photography Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, "Seeing the Disabled: Visual Rhetorics of Disability in Popular Photography”

Lesson 8: Feb. 27-Mar. 5 Disability and Art Photography Hevey, David, “The Enfreakment of Photography”

Lesson 9: Mar. 6-12 Freaks Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, Preface, Acknowledgements, and “Introduction: From Wonder to Error - A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity”

Mar. 13-19 Spring Break

Lesson 10: Mar. 20-26 Diane Arbus Millett, Ann, “Exceeding the Frame: The Photography of Diane Arbus”

Lesson 11: Mar 27-Apr. 2 Disability in Art History: Past and Present Snyder, Sharon L., “Infinities of Forms: Disability Figures in Artistic Traditions”

Lesson 12: Apr. 3-13 Seeing and Performing Disability Davis, Lennard J., ““Visualizing the Disabled Body: The Classical Nude and the Fragmented Torso” in Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body, 126-157. London and New York: Verso, 1995 Duffy, Mary, “Redressing the Balance”

Apr. 14-16 holiday

Lesson 13: Apr. 17-23 Frida Kahlo Grimberg, Solomon, Book reviews, Woman’s Art Journal Helland, Janice, Aztec Imagery in Frida Kahlo’s Paintings: Indigenity and Political Commitment”

Lesson 14: Apr. 24-30 Joseph Grigely and Cheryl Marie Wade Cheryl Marie Wade, “I am Not One Of The” and “Cripple Lullaby”