Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Professor of Women’s Studies; Director of Graduate Studies
rgarlan@emory.edu

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her fields of study are feminist theory, American literature, and disability studies. Her scholarly and professional activities are devoted to developing the field of disability studies in the humanities and in women's studies.

She is the author of Staring: How We Look (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2008), Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture (Columbia UP, 1997); editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (NYU Press, 1996), and co-editor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (MLA Press, 2002). She is currently writing a book called Cure or Kill: The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia, which traces eugenic thought through American literature.

Recent Women's Studies courses taught:
History of Feminist Thought (undergraduate)
Contemporary Feminist Thought (undergraduate)
Feminist Theory: Feminist Conversations (graduate)
Teaching Women's Studies (graduate)

Garland-Thomson CV

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