Sharon Snyder is the co-editor of a new book, Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (PMLA, 2002), co-author of Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (2001), and co-editor of the first edited collection on disability studies in the humanities: The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability (1997). In August 2002 Dr. Snyder will be a visiting faculty at the Universidad de Costa Rica. Her documentary video projects, as the director of Brace Yourselves Productions, include Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back, the Grand Prize winner of Rehabilitation International Film Festival (Aukland, N.l., 1996), and Best Film of the Festival, International Disability Film Festival (Moscow, 2002), and A World Without Bodies, the recipient of CDT's Superfest Merit Award in 2003. She is a series editor for Corporealities: Discourses of Disability published by the University of Michigan Press. Her articles appear in Journal of the Medical Humanities, Disability and Society, Public Culture: Discourses of the Global Modern, Patterns of Prejudice, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and Disability Studies Quarterly. She is a founding member of the Modern Language Association's Committee on Disability Issues, and a member of the board of the Society for Disability Studies

Research Interests

Research Interests include the narrative and cultural study of disability; histories of disability; disability as a political subjectivity (the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, class, national identity, and disability); diagnostic labels and affiliations across kinds of disabilities; curriculum development for disability studies; representations of disabilities in film and media; eugenics and the history of institutions, including the development of a bifurcation between regular education and special education in the U.S.

Teaching Interests

Teaching includes the following courses: Visualizing the Body; Graduate Seminar in Disability Studies; Foundations of Disability and Human Development; Disability and Culture: Race, Gender, and Sexuality; Disability Documentary Video Production; A Representational History of Disability; A History of Human Difference - Disability Minorities in America; and Disability as Political Subjectivity. An article written by the course participants in Disability as Political Subjectivity appears in the Summer 2002 issue of Disability and Society.