Narratives of Disability and Embodiment, Northeast Ohio Medical University

This course draws from literary narratives (short stories, poems, and memoir) as well as film and television to interrogate the meaning of disability and the experience of embodiment. Learning to recognize and to problematize common narrative tropes surrounding disability and deformity - e.g. monstrosity, “inspiration porn,” and the “supercrip”—students enrolled in this course will question their understanding of bodily norms, the intersection of ability with other elements of an individual’s identity (e.g. gender, sexuality, race, and class), and how embodiment shapes the ways in which we navigate sociocultural, ecological, and built environments. This course can contribute to the achievment of a Graduate Certificate in Medical Ethics and Humanities, a 10-credit program that allows students to combine clinical practice with ethics consultation, education, and research. This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.