Jay Sibara

Title

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

Department

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Information

Current Courses

CRS	Title	Sec
GS125	Health and Human Rights: A Reading Group	A
WG120B	Critical Inquiries in Medical Ethics	A
WG241	Foundations of Disability Studies	A
WG352	Theorizing Medicine: Critical Race Studies to Trans of Color Critique	A
WG493	Seminar: Identity Formation, Social Movement, and Gender	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.

People