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BOOKS

HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Corporealities: Discourses of Disability series.

• Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title.
• Reviewed in: Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Choice.

Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America.  Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

• Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“The Joker’s Shifting Face: Eighty Years of Mad History in Batman and American Culture.” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 18.3 (Fall 2024). Special issue: Cripping Graphic Medicine II: Access and Activism at the Crossroads of Intersectionality.

“Disability.” Blackwell Companion to Children’s Literature. Eds. Karen Coats, Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, and Deborah Stevenson. Hoboken: John Wiley, 2022.          

• Invited book chapter. 

“Masculinity at the Orthopedic Preschool.” Constructing the (M)other: Narratives at the Intersection of Motherhood and the Politics of Normal. Ed. Priya Lalvani. Bern: Peter Lang, 2019: 83-92.

• Invited book chapter. 

“Runoff: Afroaquanauts in Landscapes of Sacrifice.” Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2020. New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative series. Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title.

Co-Authored with Chloë Hughes. “Introduction: Mainstreaming Literature for Young People.” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 12.3 (Fall 2018): 261-7. Literature for Young People special issue co-editor. 

“Moving Together Side by Side: Human-Animal Comparisons in Picture Books.” Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities. Ed. Sarah Jaquette Ray and J.C. Sibara. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017: 594-622. 

• Invited book chapter. 

“No Monsters in This Fairy Tale: Wonder and the New Children’s Literature.” Children’s Literature Quarterly 38.3 (Fall 2013): 335-350. Disability Studies special issue. 

“Don’t Climb Every Mountain.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 20.3 (Summer 2013): 553-573. 

• "Editor’s Choice” for issue’s best article.