The UW Disability Studies Program is pleased to present a lecture at the intersection between disability theory, Italian literature, and gender and sexuality studies, by Kate Noson of UC Berkeley.
Title: “Other limits and other borders”: The Queer Country of the Blind in Gabriele Pedullà’s “Miranda”
Time: Thursday, October 22, 2015, 5:00pm
Location: Odegaard Library, Room 220, University of Washington
Bio: 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.
Abstract: In this talk, Noson theorizes literary “transability” as an appropriation of disabled modes of being and knowing, to read Gabriele Pedullà’s story “Miranda” (2009) as an expression of anxiety regarding both queer sexuality and blind epistemology.
Accessibility information: Please do not wear any scents. ASL interpretation and CART captioning will be provided. The room is wheelchair accessible.
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.
For more information about this and other Disability Studies events, please go to: https://depts.washington.edu/disstud/
