Fall 2023 Colloquium - Emily Stanback

English, University of Southern Mississippi

Title: Rereading Disability with Race in the Long Eighteenth Century

Abstract: This talk examines the complex relationships between disability and race as they developed over the course of the long eighteenth century into their modern forms. Focusing on cultural touchstones including travel narratives, both literary and scientific, I will argue that attending to colonialism, empire, and race can significantly shift our sense of disability history and that we cannot understand eighteenth-century race or disability without examining the two in tandem.