Lennard Davis, PhD
Professor of English and Disability Studies |  | | Phone | 312-413-8910 | | Fax | 312-413-1005 | | Email | LenDavis@uic.edu | | Office | 1832 UH | Bio
Columbia University, 1976 Research Interests
Lennard J. Davis is professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of disability studies and human development in the College of Health and Human Development Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of two works on the novel–Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel (Columbia U. Press, 1983, rpt. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996) and Resisting Novels: Fiction and Ideology (Routledge, 1987, rpt. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001) and co-editor of Left Politics and the Literary Profession. His works on disability include Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body (Verso, 1995), which won the 1996 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights’ annual award for the best scholarship on the subject of intolerance in North America, and The Disability Studies Reader (Routledge, 1996). He has also written a memoir My Sense of Silence (University of Illinois Press, 2000), was chosen Editor’s Choice Book for the Chicago Tribune and nominated for the National Book Award for 2000 and for the Book Critics Circle Award for 2000.. The memoir describes his growing up in a Deaf family. He has also edited his parents’ correspondence Shall I Say a Kiss: The Courtship Letters of a Deaf Couple, 1936-38 ( Gallaudet University Press, 1999).. He was co-founder of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession, and is on the board of several academic journals. He has written widely for newspapers and magazines. His newest work is a novel entitled The Sonnets (State University of New York Press, March 2001). A collection of his essays entitled Bending Over Backwards will be published by New York University Press. He is currently working on Obsession: The History of Fascination and the People Who Made it a Disease. Curriculum Vitae |
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