"Queer Austerity and Excess: Cripping the Crisis; or, the Rise of Disability Capitalism"

5 p.m., Thursday, February 7, 2013
Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Hall

Robert McRuer is professor and chair of English at the George Washington University. He is author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities. He co-edited Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies, a special double issue of GLQ, which won the 2003 Best Special Issue Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.