Скачать или смотреть Disability Studies Webinar: “Because the Butterfly” Autistic Disturbances of Language and Rhetoric

Presenter: Julia Miele Rodas

Arguing that autistic expression has been an important contributing factor in many texts, this talk offers an overview of the central themes of Autistic Disturbances, exploring how autistic verbal expression has frequently been miscast as waste and looking at the fundamental aesthetic and creative value of autistic language. Taking an autism positive approach, Dr. Rodas looks at the ways autistic rhetorics thread through and enhance the richness and vibrancy of shared human language.

One registrant will be randomly selected to win a free copy of Autistic Disturbances.

Dr. Rodas is a professor of English at Bronx Community College. Her most recent book, Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe, may be purchased at www.press.umich.edu; use the code UMCUNY for a 30% discount. Books will not be available for purchase at the event.

This event is co-sponsored by the CUNY Disability Scholars; the Columbia University Seminar in Disability, Culture & Society; the Futures Initiative & the CUNY Graduate Center Program in Music.