Robert McRuer

Robert McRuer (born 1966) is an American theorist who has contributed to fields in transnational queer and disability studies. He is currently professor of English at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.

McRuer received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1995.[1] His books include The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities[2] and Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability.[3] McRuer has also edited Sex and Disability,[4] with Anna Mollow, and Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies,[5] with Abby L. Wilkerson.

McRuer’s work focuses on queer and crip cultural studies and critical theory. He is completing a book tentatively titled Crip Time: Essays on Disability, Sexuality, and Neoliberalism, considering locations of disability within contemporary political economies and the roles that disabled movements and representations play in countering hegemonic forms of globalization. His first book centered on contemporary LGBT writers, particularly LGBT writers of color, and his most recent book attends to cultural sites where critical queerness and disability contest heteronormativity and compulsory able-bodiedness.[6]

List of publications

This is a partial list of publications by Robert McRuer:

See also

References

  1. http://departments.columbian.gwu.edu/english/people/134
  2. McRuer, Robert (1997). The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0814755556.
  3. McRuer, Robert (2006). Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0814757130.
  4. McRuer, Robert (2012). Sex and Disability. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822351542.
  5. McRuer, Robert (2003). Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822365518.
  6. "Robert McRuer". The George Washington University.
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