CFP: Reimagining Disability through “Disability Gain” (RSA Panel)
This panel welcomes contributions devoted to the long genealogy of literary, visual, and historical representations of the disabled or “defective” body, particularly those also attentive to the concept of “disability gain.” Coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “disability gain,” allows Renaissance scholars to reconsider and reimagine the disabled body (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019). Through this framework, based…