Alyson Patsavas

Alyson Patsavas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Her scholarship is situated at the intersections of disability studies, queer theory, and feminist theory and focuses on cultural discourses of pain, disability, and crip epistemologies, as well as representations of disability and chronic illness in popular culture. Patsavas is a writer and producer on the documentary film Code of the Freaks (2020). Her work has appeared in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Somatechnics, Disability Studies Quarterly, Crip Magazine, Feminist Wire, the Czech Sociological Review, and Lateral.

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