Member lendavis

I am a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago where I teach disability studies, biocultures, literature, literary theory and related topics. I was born in the Bronx to two Deaf parents, attended De Witt Clinton HS in the Bronx and then went to Columbia College in New York City. I got my PhD from Columbia University in English and Comparitive Literature. My dissertation advisers were Edward Said and Steven Marcus. I also was a special student at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Training Clinic and at the Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes in Paris where I attended a year-long seminar run by Roland Barthes.