Please join us for this lecture exploring queer sexuality and blind epistemology in Italian literature.
University of Washington Disability Studies Program presents
Speaker: Kate Noson
Title: “Other limits and other borders”: The Queer Country of the Blind in Gabriele Pedullà’s “Miranda”
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2015, 5:00pm
Location: Odegaard Library 220, University of Washington
Access information:
The room is wheelchair accessible. Please do not wear any scents. ASL interpretation and CART captioning will be provided.
To request another disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at: 206.543.6450 (voice), 206.543.6452 (TTY), 206.685.7264 (fax), or email dso@uw.edu.
Directions:
Address: 4060 George Washington Lane Northeast, Seattle, WA 98195
Campus map: http://www.washington.edu/maps/#!/OUG
Abstract & bio:
In this lecture, Noson theorizes literary “transability” as an appropriation of disabled modes of being and knowing, to read Gabriele Pedullà’s story “Miranda” as an expression of anxiety regarding both queer sexuality and blind epistemology.
Kate Noson is Lecturer of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where her fields of research are disability studies, modern Italian literature, and gender and sexuality studies.
