Disability studies scholar; Victorianist; co-editor Literary Disability Studies book series, Palgrave Macmillan; co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar in Disability, Culture & Society; founding co-Chair, CUNY Disability Scholars. Books: The Madwoman and the Blindman (co-editor; Ohio State UP, 2012); Autistic Disturbances (U Mich P, 2018).