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Elizabeth J. Donaldson
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Elizabeth J. Donaldson researches disability, madness and mental illness in literature and popular culture, with a focus on medical humanities, neurodiversity, stigma and the history of schizophrenia and psychiatry.
Her work examines portrayals of psychosis and mental illness in film, comics and literature, as well as cultural ideas about madness, disability and neurodiversity. She has also studied antipsychiatry in memoir, representations of schizophrenia in graphic medicine and histories of madness and psychiatry. Her research provides context for conversation about how society understands and represents mental illness, psychosis, caregiving and neurodivergence.
Donaldson is the director of the School of Applied Sciences and Arts, where she also teaches as a professor. She has extensively contributed to and edited journals, essay collections and a leading book series focused on literary disability studies.
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I think disability studies is robust and has been moving toward critical disability studies: a position that is not as attached to the traditional definitions that founded the field, such as medical disability versus social disability, but is more attuned to intersectional identities. The field is being informed by the perspectives of people who are neurodivergent, queer, trans and people of color, which is a good thing.
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