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New Books in Disability Studies

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Disability Studies
The Man Of Middling Height
Crip Negativity
PACE (program Of All-Inclusive Care For the Elderly)
Elder Care
Language Access Systems Improvement Initiative
Machine Translation
Epilepsy
Archival Profession
Lyrasis
Alice Wong
Mental Health In Higher Education
Neurodiversity
Autism
Hypochondria
Disability Rights
Subminimum Wages
Empathy
Health Humanities
National Tale

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Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is your safe space to learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion, and how you can be a force for change. Most DEI books focus on gender, race or the intersection of those two ... more

Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale (Liverpool UP, 2026) is about the way the Romantic National Tale exercises power and defines the boundaries of citizenship through the categories of health, illness,... more

Hotels represent nations, hosting visiting monarchs, politicians, and diplomats. Hotels underpin global networks of travel and communication, on which national and international prosperity have increasingly depended since the end of the First World W... more

Mainstream psychology has long accepted that some people (like those with autism) are naturally more logical and unemotional, while others (like so-called empaths) intuitively experience the feelings of those around them as deeply as their own. But t... more

Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive (NYU Press, 2026) is a bold and incisive reconsideration of the relationship between enslavement, disability, and performance in 19th- and early 20th-century America; a time whe... more

We often think of medieval medicine as strange, unhygienic and unscientific, but The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Katherine Harvey reveals a far richer story. Long before modern wellness trends, people in the Middle Ages w... more

In Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages (Cornell UP, 2022), Doug Crandell uncovers the harsh reality of people with disabilities in the United States who are forced to work in unethical conditions for s... more

Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story (Reaktion, 2026) proposes a bold reimagining of a frequently dismissed condition. Dr. Susannah B. Mintz reframes health anxiety not as a pathology but as a site of creative potential – exploring hypochondria as ... more

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Matthew L. Reznicek
Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at University of Minnesota Medical School
University of Minnesota Medical School
Episode: Matthew L. Reznicek, "Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale" (Liverpool UP, 2026)
Eloise Moss
Professor of Modern British History, University of Manchester
University of Manchester
Episode: Eloise Moss, "The Secret Life of the Hotel: Sex, Crime and Protest in British Guesthouses Since 1918" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Aimee Cliff
Author of Empathy Takes Action, an autistic therapist
Author; Psychotherapist
Episode: Empathy Takes Action: An Autistic Therapist on the Radical Work of Connection
Danielle Bainbridge
Assistant Professor and the Director of Interdisciplinary PhD in Theater and Drama Program at Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Episode: Danielle Bainbridge, "Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive" (NYU Press, 2026)
Dr. Katherine Harvey
Author of The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living
Reaktion (publisher) and historian
Episode: Katherine Harvey, "The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living" (Reaktion, 2026)
Doug Crandell
Author of 22 Cents an Hour
Cornell University Press
Episode: Doug Crandell, "Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Susannah Mintz
Professor of English at Skidmore College, author of Hypochondria, In Sickness and in Story
Skidmore College
Episode: Susannah B. Mintz, "Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story" (Reaktion, 2026)
Mara Mills
NYU Media Studies professor; co-creator of Tuning Time project
New York University
Episode: Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1 with Benjamen Walker and Fanny Gribenski
Fanny Gribenski
Musicologist at NYU; project presenter for The Elephant in the Piano
New York University
Episode: Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1 with Benjamen Walker and Fanny Gribenski

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Danielle Bainbridge, "Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive" (NYU Press, 2026)
Q: Talk about how you came to the central question of your book.
The question arose from a personal encounter with a photograph of Millie Christine McKoy in an archive, which led to exploring the intersections of labor, enslavement, and performance and imagining how archives can reveal or obscure these dynamics.
Arseli Dokumaci, "Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" (Duke UP, 2023)
Q: What is the role of care and kinship in activist affordances, and how do these ideas translate to real-world communities?
Care and kinship are central to activist affordances; they enable shared enactments of support—such as family members carrying a child or assisting an elder—that sustain the creation of livable worlds, suggesting that disability justice relies on care networks and collaborative action rather than solitary acts.
Arseli Dokumaci, "Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" (Duke UP, 2023)
Q: How does shrinkage relate to chronic pain and disability, and how does it broaden disability politics?
Shrinkage reframes disability as a relational ecology between body and environment; by illustrating how chronic pain constricts action while prompting collective adaptation, it broadens disability politics to encompass social, environmental, and planetary scales, highlighting solidarities beyond individual impairment.
Arseli Dokumaci, "Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" (Duke UP, 2023)
Q: Could you explain what you define as activist affordances and how they differ from traditional affordances?
Activist affordances are action possibilities that people create through worldmaking in response to environmental and social constraints; they are not merely existing tools but emergent practices that enable livable living spaces and collective resilience, often sustained through performance and social collaboration.
Matthew L. Reznicek, "Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale" (Liverpool UP, 2026)
Q: Could you tell us how you came to this project and what drew you to reading national tales through health and biopolitics?
The project arose from teaching two parallel courses—national tales and medical humanities—which revealed patterns where women often function as carers and health providers, suggesting a biopolitical frame that extends beyond the traditional marriage-plot readings.

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This show centers scholarly interviews with experts in disability studies, medical humanities, archival practice, and allied fields, often discussing recently published books and cutting-edge research. Episodes frequently explore how disability, embodiment, archives, and culture intersect with literature, history, education, and social justice. A standout trait is the consistent pairing of disability-informed scholars with authors or researchers to illuminate methodological approaches, archival ethics, and the politics of care, often tying historical analyses to contemporary policy or activist contexts. The breadth across topics—from crip theory and neurodiversity to museum archives and disability rights advocacy—makes it a valuable resourc... more

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