Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is a disability justice and culture thought leader, bioethicist, teacher, and humanities scholar. She is a professor of English and bioethics at Emory University, where she teaches disability studies, bioethics, American literature and culture, and feminist theory. Her work develops the field of critical disability studies in the health humanities to bring forward disability access, inclusion, and identity to a broad range of institutions and communities. Garland-Thomson is the author of Staring: How We Look and Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature and co-editor of About Us: Essays from the New York Times about Disability by People with Disabilities and several other books. Her 2016 editorial, “Becoming Disabled,” was the inaugural article in the ongoing weekly series in the New York Times about disability by people living with disabilities. Her current project is Embracing Our Humanity: A Bioethics of Disability and Health.