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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
WG398 Dangerous Theory: Perspectives on Anti-Woke Censorship 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 disability studies

  • Critical medical humanities/health humanities

  • Critical race and ethnic studies

  • Environmental humanities

  • Queer of color critique

Personal Information

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

Research/Publications

Associate Principal Investigator, with PI Tanya Sheehan (Art), Public Humanistic Inquiry Lab: Critical Medical Humanities: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Medicine, Colby College, 2021-2025.

”Adam’s Rib: Trans without Medicine.” Essay. The Cincinnati Review vol. 21, no. 1 (2024): 87-95. Awarded the Robert and Adele Schiff Prize for Literary Nonfiction, selected by Kristen Iversen. 

”Three Bullets.” Short story. Moss: A Journal of the Pacific Northwest vol. 4 (2019): 141-150.

”Disability and Dissent in Ann Petry’s The Street.” Literature and Medicine vol. 36, no. 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 vol. 39, no. 1 (2014): 56-81.

“’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.