2016 Fordham Distinguished Lecture on Disability

Speaker: Robert McRuer of George Washington University

“Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance”

Keating Hall 1st | Rose Hill

Robert McRuer is a Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at the George Washington University, where he teaches queer theory, disability studies, and 20th/21st-century American Studies. He is the author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (NYU Press, 2006) and of The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities (NYU Press, 1997), and Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance (NYU Press, 2018).

The Fordham news coverage of the 2016 Lecture.