Amrita Dhar (Principal Investigator; Assistant Professor, English, OSU)
Amrita Dhar grew up in Calcutta, and studied at the universities of Jadavpur (India), Cambridge (UK), and Michigan (USA). She researches and teaches on early modern literature, disability studies. Apart from co-leading The Recovery Project, she is writing her first monograph, entitled Milton’s Blind Language, which studies the disability poetics of John Milton’s most enduring work, and co-leading a trans-continental project entitled “Shakespeare in the ‘Post’Colonies: What’s Shakespeare to Them, or They to Shakespeare,” which examines the stakes of performing, reading, and teaching Shakespeare in erstwhile colonial geographies. She is also an active climber and mountaineer, and works and writes on world mountaineering literatures.
Sona Hill Kazemi (Principal Investigator; Mills College, Center for Teaching and Learning)
The Recovery Project’s coordinator and Co-PI, Dr. Sona Hill Kazemi is Research Justice at the Intersections Fellow at Mills College (2020-2021). Her research program is located in contradictions among transnational Human and Disability Rights frameworks and Peace Education “efforts” in the context of global and regional imperialism(s). Her second postdoctoral project concerns traumatized Yazidi children’s education as displaced, and often, disabled students, the mental health of Iranian and Kurdish refugees in the U.S. who are the survivors of state violence, Iranian women survivors of acid attack and their disability- and feminist consciousness, and punitive limb amputation in Saudi Arabia and Iran. She is completing her first monograph, tentatively titled “Disabling Relations: Injured Bodyminds & Active Witnessing” based on her dissertation and on two postdoctoral research projects. The Temple University Press has already solicited the manuscript and sent it to the reviewers.
Margaret Price (Principal Investigator; Associate Professor, English and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, OSU)
Margaret Price is Associate Professor of English (rhetoric/composition) and Director of Disability Studies. Her book, Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life, won the Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. She is now at work on a new book titled Crip Spacetime: A Re-orientation to Disability in Higher Education, under contract with Duke University Press. Margaret’s poetry, fiction, essays, and articles have appeared in venues including Ms. magazine, Disability Studies Quarterly, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, and Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture.
Amy Shuman (Co-PI; Professor, English; Faculty Affiliate: Center for Folklore Studies, Mershon Center for International; Security, Project Narrative, Disability Studies, OSU)
Hemachandran Karah (Co-PI; Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Madras)
Dr Hemachandran Karah teaches English Literature at the Humanities and Social sciences faculty, IIT Madras. He is interested in researching on themes such as disability, health, the language question, literary criticism, and musicology.
Chloe J. Brown (Graduate Associate; English and Folklore Studies, OSU)
Chloe Brown is a Folklore PhD student in the Department of English. Her research interests include narrative, medicine, stigma, and region/place (specifically Appalachia and the US south). She previously attended Western Kentucky University, earning a BA in English Literature and Spanish and an MA in Folk Studies. Her current research explores tourism, identity, and tradition in the Lake Cumberland area of southeastern Kentucky.
Sarah Homan (Undergraduate Associate, African & African American Studies, OSU)
Sarah Homan is a fourth year majoring in African & African American Studies with minors in Disability Studies, Theatre and Fashion Retail. Her interests include the African diaspora, the educational system and its effects on Black youth, and the intersectionality of race, class, ability, gender and sex. Her previous research experience involved conducting interviews of first and second generation African immigrant college students at Ohio State to learn about how literacy affects their identity in America.
Erin Broderick (Undergraduate)
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