Bio note

Robert McRuer is professor of English at The George Washington University in Washington. Known as being one of the founding scholars involved in forming the field of queer disability studies, particularly for a theoretical outlook known as crip theory, his work focuses on crip cultural studies and critical theory. His most recent book, Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance, was released in January 2018. Crip Times considers locations of disability within contemporary political economies and the roles that disabled movements and representations play in countering hegemonic forms of globalization. His first book, The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities, centered on contemporary LGBT writers, particularly LGBT writers of color, and his second book, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, attended to cultural sites where critical queerness and disability contest heteronormativity and compulsory able-bodiedness.

Books:

Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance. Crip: New Directions in Disability Studies Series. New York: New York University Press, 2018.

Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. Cultural Front Series. New York: New York University Press, 2006. Finalist for a 2007 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. Winner of the 2007 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award (presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association).

The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

A Cultural History of Disability. General Editor with David Bolt. Six edited volumes covering periods from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. Forthcoming, Bloomsbury Press (2020).
 

Series organized by the Doctoral Programme Human Rights in Contemporary Societies (Centre for Social Studies/Interdisciplinary Research Institute of the University of Coimbra, Portugal)

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