Margaret Fink

Margaret Fink joined the Disability Cultural Center staff as Director in 2019. Fink identifies as a white, cisgender woman who is deaf. As an adult, they learned some sign language but grew up mainstreamed in hearing culture. Fink received my PhD in English Literature from the University of Chicago, and their academic interests focus around representations of disability and everydayness, particularly the formal choices that build certain concepts of disability in relationship to race. One of their primary questions has been: what can visual representation say, convey, or be ambiguous about that textual representation can’t, and vice versa? These investigations have led Fink to focus on representation not just in prose novels but also in media like comics and reality tv. — from the Disability Cultural Center at University of Illinois Chicago website

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