Robert McRuer

Crip / Queer Theorist

Robert McRuer is a writer and speaker whose work is situated at the intersections of the interdisciplinary fields of disability studies and queer theory.

His award-winning 2006 book Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability has been translated into three languages.

He is a Professor of English at George Washington University, where he teaches queer theory, disability studies, and critical theory more generally. He is available for talks and conversations about all these fields, in English and in Spanish.

Books

2020
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A Cultural History of Disability

How has our understanding and treatment of disability evolved in Western culture? How has it been represented and perceived in different social and cultural conditions?
2018
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Crip Times

Disability, Globalization, and Resistance
2012
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Sex & Disabilty

The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in disability studies do not discuss sex in much detail.
2006
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Crip Theory

Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
1997
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Queer Renaissance

Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities

Career