Jessica Horvath Williams Presentation

Join the Department of English in hearing a formal presentation from Jessica Horvath Williams, candidate for a tenure-track faculty position in English. Email sutt0063@umn.edu for Zoom info.

Jessica Horvath Williams earned her PhD in English Literature from UCLA in 2020, and is the co-chair of the Critical Disability Studies Collective at the University of Minnesota. She researches at the intersection of feminist disability studies and nineteenth-century US history and literature, with particular emphasis on domestic and slave labor and early eugenicist discourse. Her current project investigates how female ideality served as a precursor for the development of three ideologies commonly critiqued by critical disability studies: the individual responsibility for health, the absence of futurity for disabled people, and the role of wage labor in the construction of (dis)ability.