The following at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies may be of particular interest: Session 30: Eighteenth–century Cripistemologies I (located in Sterling 9) Session 38: “Alternative” Medicine in the Eighteenth Century I (located in Sterling 2) Session 85: Roundtable: Intersectional Approaches to Eighteenth–century Disability (located in Sterling 3) Session 116: Health…
DSQ 40.4 (Fall 2020)
The Fall 2020 issue of Disability Studies Quarterly is here! Our readers will be most interested in Alice Equestri’s “Shakespeare and the Construction of Intellectual Disability: The Case of Touchstone.” Here’s the abstract: In this article I analyse how Shakespeare uses early modern paradigms of intellectual disability to construct the identity of Touchstone, the fool…