Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives

Anelise Haukaas is an instructor at Laramie County Community College. She holds a PhD in English and the Teaching of English from Idaho State University, in addition to an MA, a BA, and a Graduate Certificate from George Mason University, where she studied literature and folklore. Her research interests include genre fiction, disability studies, folklore and mythology, popular culture, and new media. This is her first academic book.

• 1. Introduction Other Worlds, Other Selves: Moving Beyond Escapism.- 2. ‘Everyone’s a Composite’: Rethinking Three of Cyberpunk’s Overlooked Women Writers as Posthumanists.- 3. The Performing Wiggin Siblings: Reading Ender’s Game through Disability Theory.- 4. The Threat of Silence in Mark Alpert’s Dystopian Simulation.- From Memes to Comics: Virtual Embodiment in Visual Rhetoric.- 5. The Player and the Avatar: Performing as Other.- 6. Learning Through Play: An Inclusive Pedagogy for the 21st Century.- 7. Conclusion The Augmented Self: Rethinking Virtual Simulation and Disability.