The Matter of Disability

David Mitchell, professor of English, co-edited this collection that returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. Examining cases from Spider-Man to Of Mice and Men, these essays explore how disability might be imagined as participant in the “complex elaboration of difference,” rather than something gone awry in an otherwise stable process.