CFP: Medieval Disability Studies and Narrative Prosthesis at Twenty-Five

Organizer: Kisha Tracy ; ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu

Delivery Mode: Hybrid

Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages

Next year will bring the 25th anniversary of the publication of Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder. Narrative Prosthesis is a seminal text in disability studies and, by extension, in the study of the Middle Ages. This panel will seek papers on prosthetics and prosthesis, metaphoric and physical, especially exploring how the applications of Mitchell and Snyder’s text have evolved, changed, and/or been revised for and in the field of medieval disability studies.