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Disability in literature
Posted on 17/03/2009
University of Leicester
University of Leicester research has revealed how inter-disciplinary approaches to the field of disability studies can offer new perspectives to existing disciplines such as the study of English literature.
Research by Dr Tom Coogan, which will be the subject of his doctoral inaugural lecture on Wednesday 18th March, shows that disability is not a marginal concept in our culture, but one that is actually central to it.
Dr Coogan has found that his innovative interdisciplinary approach to analysing disability life-writing can bring a new understanding of the way in which the body makes itself known in language. This is of significance not only to disability studies but also to the wider field of literary studies.
He commented: