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Jay Sibara

He/They

Title

Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Department

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Information

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
WG101 Introduction to Women's, Gender,and Sexuality Studies A
WG120B Critical Inquiries in Medical Ethics A
WG349 Queer of Color Critique A

Education

Ph.D., English with a Certificate in Gender Studies, University of Southern California

M.A., English, University of Southern California

B.A., English with a Minor in Philosophy and a Concentration in Interpretation Theory, Swarthmore College

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical race and ethnic studies

  • Critical disability studies

  • Environmental humanities

  • Gender and sexuality studies

  • Medical humanities

  • Multi-ethnic US literatures

 

Personal Information

Personal Website: https://colby.academia.edu/JaySibara



Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

"Disability and Dissent in Ann Petry's The Street." Literature and Medicine 36.1 (2018): 1-26.

Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory. Co-edited with Sarah Jaquette Ray. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

“Disease, Disability, and the Alien Body in the Literature of Sui Sin Far." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 39.1 (2014): 56-81.

Other Publications

"Three Bullets." Short story. Moss: A Journal of the Pacific Northwest. 2019.

“'From the Periphery Towards the Center': Locating an Alternative Genealogy for Disability Studies in Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals.” UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Gender. Thinking Gender Papers. University of California eScholarship, California Digital Library, 2009.