Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is professor emerita of English at Emory University with a focus on disability studies and feminist theory.[1] Her book Extraordinary Bodies, published in 1997,[2] is a founding text in the disability studies canon.[3]

Garland-Thomson attended the University of Nevada, Reno, from which she earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (MA) in English. She then earned a Doctor of Philosophy in English from Brandeis University in 1993. In 2019, she earned an MA in Bioethics from Emory University.[4]

In 2000, Garland-Thomson co-directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on disability studies, which shaped the development of many scholars who now lead the field, and was a founding member and co-chair for two years of the Modern Language Association Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession, which transformed the largest academic professional organization into a model of accessibility for organizations across the world. She established the field of feminist disability studies with seminal and definitional articles in feminist studies journals, including: "Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory", National Women’s Studies Association Journal (2002), which is reprinted in women’s studies and feminist textbooks and has been translated into Hebrew, Czech, and Turkish; and “Feminist Disability Studies: A Review Essay” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2005), which established a canon of feminist disability studies and set an agenda for future scholarship.

Garland-Thomson travels and speaks widely on the subject of disability studies in the US and abroad and has delivered major invited lectures and keynote addresses in: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Norway, Israel, Singapore, Sweden, Budapest, Canada, Germany, Iceland, Australia, the Netherlands, France, and England. Her extensive public intellectual work has advanced disability studies outside the university, including the following: images and ideas from her book Staring: How We Look (2009)[5] were translated into an art exhibit at Davidson College in 2009[6] and was profiled in The Chronicle of Higher Education[7]; she was selected as one of Utne Reader’s 2010 “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World".[8][9] She has consulted and collaborated extensively about inclusion programs and initiatives with the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts, and the National Park Service on the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial; and her public scholarship pieces have appeared in well-known publications like The New York Times,[10] The Huffington Post,[11][12][13][14] and Al Jazeera.[15] She is also frequently interviewed on the radio,[16] for newspaper stories, and for documentary projects. In 2010, she received the Society for Disability Studies Senior Scholar Award for her contributions to building the field of disability studies.[17]

Publications

As author

  • Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie (1996). Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-10517-0.
  • Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie (2009). Staring: How We Look. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-532680-2.

As editor

  • Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, ed. (1996). Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-814-78222-4.[18]
  • Snyder, Sharon L.; Brueggemann, Brenda Jo; Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, eds. (2002). Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. Modern Language Association Press. ISBN 978-0-873-52981-5.[19]
  • Sandell, Richard; Dodd, Jocelyn; Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, eds. (2010). Re-Presenting Disability: Agency and Activism in the Museum. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-49473-1.[20]
  • Catapano, Peter; Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie (eds.). About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times. Narrated by Coleen Mario and Jonathan Todd Ross. Liveright. ISBN 978-1-684-57383-7.[21]
  • Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie; Chemers, Michael Mark; Santana, Analola, eds. (2024). Freak Inheritance: Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-197-69112-0.

References

  1. ^ "Rosemarie Garland-Thomson". Emory University. Archived from the original on June 24, 2025. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
  2. ^ Folwell, Ann (1998). "Review of Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature". American Literature. 70 (1): 187–188. doi:10.2307/2902469. ISSN 0002-9831. Archived from the original on April 23, 2024. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
  3. ^ "Extraordinary Bodies". Columbia University Press. Archived from the original on September 4, 2023. Retrieved September 4, 2023.
  4. ^ "About RGT". Rosemarie Garland Thomson. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
  5. ^ Swartz, Omar (October 2011). "A Review of "Staring: How We Look": Rosemarie Garland-Thomson , 244 pages, Oxford 2009, $24.95". Visual Communication Quarterly. 18 (4): 262–263. doi:10.1080/15551393.2011.627283. ISSN 1555-1393.
  6. ^ Cooley, Jessica; Fox, Ann M. (January 3, 2014). "Disability Art, Aesthetics, and Access: Creating Exhibitions in a Liberal Arts Setting". Disability Studies Quarterly. 34 (1). doi:10.18061/dsq.v34i1.3288. Archived from the original on March 29, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  7. ^ "The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL". Business.highbeam.com. June 3, 2020. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  8. ^ "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World". Utne Reader. December 13, 2010. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  9. ^ "Rosemarie Garland-Thomson: Author, Staring". Utne Reader. October 12, 2009. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  10. ^ Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie (August 17, 2012). "Opinion: Language of Autocorrect". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 3, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  11. ^ Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie (September 10, 2013). "Siri and Me". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  12. ^ "Videos | HuffPost". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  13. ^ Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie (February 21, 2013). "Hot Sex and Disability at the Movies". Huffington Post. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  14. ^ Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie (January 17, 2013). "Sex Lessons". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  15. ^ Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie (March 14, 2013). "Opinion: Elegy for Oscar Pistorius". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  16. ^ "Eliminate Disability? | Pushing Limits". Pushinglimits.i941.net. August 28, 2014. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  17. ^ "SDS Senior Scholar". Society for Disability Studies. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  18. ^ Martin, S. C. (June 1, 1998). "Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Edited by Rosemarie Garland Thomson (New York: New York University Press, 1996. xviii plus 400pp. $65.00/cloth $24.95/paperback)". Journal of Social History. 31 (4): 963–964. doi:10.1353/jsh/31.4.963. ISSN 0022-4529.
  19. ^ White, Bruce A.; L. Snyder, Sharon; Brueggemann, Bnda Jo; Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie (2004). "Review of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, L. SnyderSharon, BrueggemannBnda Jo, Garland-ThomsonRosemarie". Sign Language Studies. 4 (2): 210–215. ISSN 0302-1475.
  20. ^ Reeve, Charles (December 5, 2012). "Re-Presenting Disability: Agency and Activism in the Museum, Richard Sandell, Jocelynn Dodd and Rosemarie Garland-Thompson (eds)". Journal of Curatorial Studies. 1 (3): 386–289. doi:10.1386/jcs.1.3.383_5. ISSN 2045-5836. Archived from the original on April 20, 2025. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
  21. ^ Scott, Whitney (January 1, 2020). "About Us". Booklist. American Library Association. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
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