Studying Disability Arts and Culture

Petra Kuppers is Professor of English, Theatre and Drama, Art and Design, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, USA. She also teaches on the low-residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. She is the author of The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art, Community Performance: An Introduction and Disability Culture and Community Performance, amongst other titles.

'Petra Kuppers draws on two decades experience developing inclusive learning environments to create a handbook for artists, scholars and students coming into this critical field of cultural work. Readable, relatable and above all practical, Teaching Disability Arts & Culture provides a comprehensive account of pedagogical strategies Kuppers has deployed with success in classroom, community and artistic contexts of all sorts. For students and those adapting their own arts, cultural and teaching practices to make them accessible for diverse communities, it will be a fantastic new resource.' - Bree Hadley, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrefacePART I 1. Setting Up2. Languages of Disability3. Discourses of Disability4. Embodiment/Enmindment: Processes of Living5. Disability CulturePART II 6. Life in the Institution: Discourses at Work and at Play7. Freak Shows and the Theatre8. Disabled Dance and Dancerly Bodies9. Superheroes and the Lure of Disability10. Looking at Autism11. Classroom Activism and Resources12. Appendix: For TeachersBibliographyIndex.