Crip Authorship

Mara Mills (Editor) Mara Mills is Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Mills is cofounder of the NYU Center for Disability Studies and coeditor of Crip Authorship: Disability as Method.Rebecca Sanchez (Editor) Rebecca Sanchez is Professor of English and director of the disability studies program at Fordham University. She is the author of Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature and (with Mara Mills) co-editor of the republication of Pauline Leader's And No Birds Sing.

"Crip Authorship moves directly into the most urgent debates in critical disability studies, focusing on questions of methodology, race, queerness, cross-disability solidarity, and what it means to make or publish crip work. An extraordinary array of authors, both emerging and well-known, contribute original pieces and provoke thrilling new conversations. This remarkable volume will be of interest to readers across many fields and methodological orientations. Crip Authorship argues for, and also demonstrates, the powerful interdisciplinarity of crip scholarship and its potential to work toward greater justice." (Margaret Price, author of Crip Spacetime) "This is a fantastic, urgent, singular, and kaleidoscopic book. Crip Authorship uses disability to explode the very idea of method: this is a book about research, but also about writing, thinking, publishing, and inhabiting. Crip Authorship is essential reading for any scholar who does anything with disability in their work; it is even more essential reading for those who don't. This is a field-changing collection." (Jonathan Sterne, author of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment) "This field-changing collection is theoretically sophisticated and politically charged! This book crucially shows how disability is not only an identity formation, but also a method to revise how we write, critique, and enact change. The collection most importantly engages disability as it relates to race, the non-West, colonialism, sexuality, gender identity, and class, offering an exciting and much needed model for our field. This text redefines how we theorize, imagine, and produce disability." (Hentyle Yapp, University of California, San Diego) "This illuminating collection of essays focuses on the variety and value of crip creation, methodology, writing and research. With contributions from Mel Y Chen, Jaipreet Virdi, Emily Lim Rogers, Ellen Samuels and many more, it is urgent and original." (Ms. Magazine) "The intent of this collective volume, expertly edited by long-standing disability advocates and scholars Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, is to show how disability can function as a methodologic prism to perceive authorship issues and return them in a radically different way, finding natural intersections with a whole universe of critical studies representing organization studies in diverse manners." (PuntoOrg) "As the field of disability studies continues to 'think otherwise' under increasingly inaccessible conditions of capitalism, racism, ableism, and classism, the impact and lineage of calls 'to crip', like the shifts and twists embedded in analyses of 'cripping' deserves consideration... It is the affirmation of love and act of solidarity across and through borders that signifies how these authors have come to ruminate on and reshape crip as a term that now works to define this realm of critical disability studies." (The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory) "While centered on experiential narratives, this deeply reflective and theoretical collection engages the contradictions within disability studies." (CHOICE) "In reading Crip Authorship, we were struck by the myriad of possible crip and disabled futures for communication studies—in how, where, and why we write, research, and publish—and were compelled to give pause to other highly normed communicative and creative practices.... [Crip Authorship] is the truest representation of the future(s) we all share." (International Journal of Communication)