TEDxMesaCCRedMountain Speaker: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.

Speaker: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, is Professor of English at Emory University, where her fields of study are disability studies, American literature and culture, feminist theory, and bioethics. Her work develops the field of critical disability studies in the health humanities, broadly understood, to bring forward disability access, inclusion and identity to communities inside and outside of the academy. She is the author of Staring: How We Look and several other books. Her current book project is Habitable Worlds: Disability, Technology, and Eugenics.

http://english.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/faculty_pages/garland-thomson.html

Expertise: Language and Literature, Culture, Gender, and Identity Studies, and Humanities in Contemporary Issues.