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2021

In Press, Robert McRuer, Disability Art on Lockdown, 2021 May, DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, Forthcoming 7.3, May 2021.

2021

“Temporalities of Diversity.” IRTG (International Research Training Group) Diversity Podcast. Composed with Giti Hatef-Rossa. 14 January 2021.

2020

US 2020: Will people with disabilities be disenfranchised?, The Stream, Al-Jazeera, 2020 Oct

2020

Review of Jameel Hampton’s Disability and the Welfare State in Britain: Changes in Perception and Policy, 1948-1979. Cercles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of English Studies (2020).

2020

“The Gift of Mobility: Disability, Queerness, and the Cultural Politics of Rehabilitation.” Written with Julie Passanante Elman. Feminist Formations 32.2 (Summer 2020): 52-78.

2020

“Series Preface: A Cultural History of Disability.” Written with David Bolt. A Cultural History of Disability. Ed. David Bolt and Robert McRuer. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. viii-xii (reprinted in each of six edited volumes covering periods from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century; pagination varies).

2020

“Disability Studies.” The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Ed. Paula Rabinowitz et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. .

2019

Review of Bruce Robbins’s The Beneficiary. “Promiscuous Relations.” Postmodern Culture 29.3 (2019). .

2019

Review of Bruce Robbins’s The Beneficiary. “Promiscuous Relations.” Postmodern Culture 29.3 (2019).

2019

“Neoliberalism.” Disability in American Life: An Encyclopedia of Concepts, Policies, and Controversies. Ed. Tamar Heller, Sarah Parker Harris, Carol Gill, and Robert Gould. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2019. 493-495.

2019

“Introduction: Cripping Cinema and Media Studies.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 58.4 (Summer 2019): 134-139.

2019

“Cripping Cinema and Media Studies.” Guest Editor. In Focus, JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Volume 58, Number 4 (Summer 2019): 134-169.

2019

“Compulsory Able-Bodiedness.” 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology. Ed. Gail Weiss, Ann Murphy, and Gayle Salamon. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2019. 61-67.

2019

“American Pie Graph.” McSweeney’s 57. Twenty-first Anniversary Edition. 10 October 2019 (this special section featured writers invited to graphically represent their perspective on the United States using a pie graph).

2018

Review of Don Kulick and Jens Rydström’s Loneliness and Its Opposite: Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 12.3 (2018): 282-286.

2017

“No Future for Crips: Disorderly Conduct in the New World Order; or, Disability Studies on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.” Culture-Theory-Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies. Ed. Anne Waldschmidt, Hanjo Berressem, and Moritz Ingwersen. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript-Verlag, 2017. 63-77.

2017

“Any Day Now: Queerness, Disability, and the Trouble with Homonormativity.” Disability Media Studies. Ed. Elizabeth Ellcessor and Bill Kirkpatrick. New York: New York University Press, 2017. 272-291.

2016

“Lo Queer y lo Crip, como formas de re-apropiación de la dignidad disidente. Una conversación con Robert McRuer.” Composed with Melania Moscoso Pérez and Soledad Arnau Ripollés. Dilemata: Revista Internacional de Éticas Aplicadas 20 (2016): 137-144 (this interview was conducted in Spanish and has not been published in English).

2016

“Epilogue: #YoSoy.” Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies. Ed. Susan Antebi and Beth E. Jörgensen. Albany: SUNY Press, 2016. 259-264.

2016

“Curb Cuts: Crip Displacements and El Edificio de Enfrente.” Special issue on Cripping Development. Ed. Kateřina Kolářová and M. Katharina Wiedlack. Somatechnics 6.2 (2016): 198-215.

2016

“Crip/Queer Performance: A Dialogue with Margrit Shildrick and Robert McRuer.” Composed with Alyson Campbell and Stephen Farrier. Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer. Ed. Alyson Campbell and Stephen Farrier. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016. 263-278.

2016

“Crip.” In Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late Capitalist Struggle. Ed. Kelly Fritsch, Clare O’Connor, and AK Thompson. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2016. 199-125. Reprinted in Kulturo, special issue on “Patologier [Pathology]” 40 (2015). Translated into Danish by Kulturo staff. 34-43. Reprinted in InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies, special issue on “Ugly Bodies: Queer Perspectives on Illness, Disability, and Aging” 11 (2016). Ed.Tomasz Sikora and Dominika Ferens. Translated into Polish by Dominika Ferens. . Reprinted in Barbarismos queer y otras esdrújulas. Ed. R. Lucas Platero, María Rosón, and Esther Ortega. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2017. 101-106. Translated into Spanish by the author.

2015

“Sexuality.” In Keywords in Disability Studies. Ed. Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 167-170.

2015

“Fattening Austerity.” Written with Anna Mollow. Special issue on Fat Agency. Ed. Nina Mackert and Jürgen Martschukat. Body Politics: Zeitschrift fűr Körpergeschichte 5 (2015): 25-49.

2015

“Afterword: The End of Contested Corporealities.” Special Issue on Contested Corporealities. Ed. Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 34.3-4 (2012): 208-211. Reprinted in Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities. Ed. Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki. New York: Routledge, 2015. 134-137.

2014

Review of Margrit Shildrick’s Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Sexuality and Subjectivity. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 8.2 (2014): 235-239.

2014

Review of Alison Kafer’s Feminist, Queer, Crip. “The Then and There of Crip Futurity.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 20.4 (2014): 532-534.

2014

Cripistemologies. Guest Editor with Merri Lisa Johnson. Special Double Issue (published as two consecutive issues) of Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Volume 8, Numbers 2-3. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014.

2014

“Proliferating Cripistemologies: A Virtual Roundtable” (14 participants, edited by Robert McRuer and Merri Lisa Johnson). Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 8.2 (2014): 149-169.

2014

“Pink.” Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory Beyond Green. Ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 63-82.

2014

“Normal.” In Keywords for American Cultural Studies. 2nd ed. Ed. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: New York University Press, 2014. 184-187.185-188. Reprinted, 3rd ed., 2020.

2014

“Introduction: Cripistemologies and the Masturbating Girl.” Written with Merri Lisa Johnson. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 8.3 (2014): 251-261.

2014

“Epilogue: Disability, Inc.” Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada. Ed. Liat Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman, and Allison C. Carey. Foreword by Angela Y. Davis. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014. 273-279.

2014

“Cripistemologies: Introduction.” Written with Merri Lisa Johnson. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 8.2 (2014): 127-147.

2012

“The New Normal: Normal and Normaller.” Avidly. 18 September 2012. .

2012

“Queer Studies and the Crises of Capitalism.” A GLQ Queer Studies Roundtable (12 participants). GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 18.1 (2012). 127-147.

2012

“Leading with Your Head: On the Borders of Disability, Sexuality, and the Nation.” Written with Nicole Markotič. Sex and Disability. Ed. Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. 165-182.

2012

“Introduction: Sex and Disability.” Written with Anna Mollow. Sex and Disability. Ed. Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. 1-34.

2012

“Enfreakment; or, Aliens of Extraordinary Disability.” Megarhetorics of Globalized Development. Ed. Rebecca Dingo and J. Blake Scott. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. 233-252.

2012

“Cripping Queer Politics, or the Dangers of Neoliberalism.” Special Issue on A New Queer Agenda. Ed. Joseph N. DeFilippis, Lisa Duggan, Kenyon Farrow, and Richard Kim. The Scholar and Feminist Online 10.1-2 (Spring 2012).

2012

“Cripping Queer Politics, or the Dangers of Neoliberalism.” Special Issue on A New Queer Agenda. Ed. Joseph N. DeFilippis, Lisa Duggan, Kenyon Farrow, and Richard Kim. The Scholar and Feminist Online 10.1-2 (Spring 2012): .

2012

“Crip Excess, Art and Politics: A Conversation with Robert McRuer.” Composed with Danielle Peers and Melisa Brittain. Special Issue on Contested Corporealities. Ed. Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 34.3-4 (2012): 148-155. Reprinted in Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities. Ed. Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki. New York: Routledge, 2015. 74-81.

2012

“Against Health: Von Krüppeln, Kranken, und den Kaputten im Kapitalismus. Ein interview von Tim Stüttgen mit Crip-Theotiker Robert McRuer.” HATE: Magazin für Relevanz und Stil 9 (2012): 115-127. Translated by Tim Stüttgen (this interview has not been published in English).

2012

“Afterword: Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity.” Special Issue on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity. Ed. Lance Wahlert and Autumn Fiester. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Forum for Ethical and Legal Debate 9.3 (2012): 357-358.

2011

“Submissive and Non-Compliant: The Shock of Gary Fisher.” Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions. Ed. Christopher M. Bell. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2011. 95-111.

2011

“Keine Zukunft für Krüppel oder Disability Studies am Rande des Nervenzusammenbruchs.” Körperregime und Geschlect. Ed. Maria Katharina Wiedlack and Katrin Lasthofer. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2011. 137-153. Translated by Maria Katharina Wiedlack (this essay was only published in English, in revised form, in 2017).

2011

“Fuck the Disabled: The Prequel.” Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Ed. Madhavi Menon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. 294-301.

2010

“The World-Making Potential of Contemporary Crip/Queer Cultural Production.” The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability. Ed. Stuart Murray and Clare Barker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 139-154.

2010

“Neoliberal Risks: Million Dollar Baby, Murderball, and Anti-National Sexual Positions.” The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film. Ed. Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotič. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010. 159-177.

2010

“Disabling Sex: Notes for a Crip Theory of Sexuality.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 17.1 (2010): 107-117.

2010

“Disability Nationalism in Crip Times.” Special Issue on Ablenationalism and the Geopolitics of Disability. Ed. Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 4.2 (2010): 163-178.

2010

“Comment from the Field: Reflections on Disability in Haiti.” Special Issue on Disabling Postcolonialism. Ed. Stuart Murray and Clare Barker. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 4.3 (2010): 327-332.

2009

“We Were Never Identified: Feminism, Queer Theory, and a Disabled World.” Special Issue on Disability and History. Ed. David Serlin. Radical History Review 94 (2006): 148-154. Reprinted in Rethinking Normalcy: A Disability Studies Reader. Ed. Tanya Titchkosky and Rod Michalko. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2009. 312-317.

2009

“Shameful Sites: Locating Queerness and Disability.” Gay Shame. Ed. David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 179-187.

2009

“Afterword: The Future of Critical Intersex.” Critical Intersex. Ed. Morgan Homes. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2009. 245-250.

2008

Review of Susannah B. Mintz’s Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities, Christopher Krentz’s Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, and H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, and Heidi M. Rose’s Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature. American Literature 80.3 (2008): 624-626.

2008

Review of Carrie Sandahl and Philip Auslander’s Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance. TDR: The Drama Review 52.3 (2008): 202-205.

2007

“Taking it to the Bank: Independence and Inclusion on the World Market.” Special Issue on Disability and the Dialectic of Dependency. Ed. Michael Davidson and David Bolt. Journal of Literary Disability 1.2 (2007): 5-14.

2006

“Queer/Disability Studies.” In Encyclopedia of Disability. Ed. Gary L. Albrecht. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2006. 1327-1330.

2006

“Queer America.” The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture. Ed. Christopher Bigsby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 215-234.

2006

“A ‘Last Stand’ Against Cure.” Ragged Edge Magazine Online. 2 June 2006. .

2005

“What Is Crip Theory?” Arena Magazine (Sweden). Translated by Tommy Bengtsson. 30 November 2005. . Reprinted in Fett Magazine (Norway), special issue on “Freakfeminisme [Freak Feminism].” Translated by Elisabeth Fossum. February 2007

2005

“Disability and the NAMES Project.” The Public Historian 27.2 (2005): 53-61.

2005

“Crip Eye for the Normate Guy: Queer Theory and the Disciplining of Disability Studies.” Special Cluster on “Disability Studies and the University.” PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 120.2 (2005): 586-592.

2004

“Composing Bodies; or, De-Composition: Queer Theory, Disability Studies, and Alternative Corporealities.” Special Cluster on “Queer Composition(s): Queer Theory in the Writing Classroom.” Ed. Jonathan Alexander and Michelle Gibson. JAC: A Quarterly Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Rhetoric, Culture, Literacy, and Politics 24.1 (2004): 47-78. Selections reprinted in Disability and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Brenda Jo Brueggemann. Boston: Bedford, 2008. 243-250.

2004

“Boys’ Own Stories and New Spellings of My Name: Coming Out and Other Myths of Queer Positionality.” Genders 20: Eroticism and Containment—Notes from the Flood Plain. Ed. Carol Siegel and Ann Kibbey. New York and London: New York University Press, 1994. 260-84. Reprinted in Queer Cultures. Ed. Deborah Carlin and Jennifer DiGrazia. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2004. 526-559

2004

“‘Marry’ Me?” Alternatives to Marriage Project. Winter 2004. .

2003

Review of Sharon Patrick Holland’s Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 49.2 (2003): 357-358.

2003

Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies. Guest Editor with Abby L. Wilkerson. Special Double Issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Volume 9, Numbers 1-2. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Winner of the 2003 Best Special Issue Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ).

2003

“Wish You Were Here; or, An Accessible World Is Possible.” Znet Online 12 July 2003. .

2003

“Introduction: Desiring Disability.” Written with Abby L. Wilkerson. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 9.1-2 (2003): 1-23. Item

2003

“Critical Investments: AIDS, Christopher Reeve, and Queer/Disability Studies.” Journal of Medical Humanities 23.3-4 (2002): 221-237. Reprinted in Thinking the Limits of the Body. Ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003. 145-163.

2003

“As Good As It Gets: Queer Theory and Critical Disability.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 9.1-2 (2003): 79-105.

2002

Review of William B. Turner’s A Genealogy of Queer Theory. National Women’s Studies Association Journal 14.2 (2002): 227-229.

2002

Review of Eli Clare’s Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. Disability and Society 17.3 (2002): 250-252.

2002

“Gay Gatherings: Reimagining the Counterculture.” Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Ed. Peter Braunstein and Michael William Doyle. New York: Routledge, 2002. 215-240.

2002

“Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence.” Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. Ed. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Sharon L. Snyder. New York: MLA Publications, 2002. 88-99. This article has been widely reprinted, including in The Disability Studies Reader, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th editions (Routledge, 2006, 2010, 2013, and 2016); The Routledge Queer Studies Reader (Routledge, 2012); and Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies (Oxford UP, 2012). Reprinted as “Capacidad corporal obligatoria y existencia discapacitada queer” in Papeles de CEIC: International Journal on Collective Identity Research, special issue on “Políticas tullidas: identidad, cuerpos abyectos y discapacidad (2020). Ed. Melania Moscoso Pérez. Translated by César Tisocco and Alberto Canseco. .

2002

“A Visitation of Difference: Randall Kenan and Black Queer Theory.” Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color. Ed. Emmanuel Nelson. New York: The Haworth Press, 1993. 221-32. Revised and reprinted as “Queer Locations, Queer Transformations: Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits” in South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. Ed. Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 184-195.

2001

“Composing Student Activists, Relocating Student Writing.” Written with Angela Hewett. Public Works: Student Writing as Public Text. Ed. Emily J. Isaacs and Phoebe Jackson. Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton and Cook, 2001. 97-106.

1999

Review of AnaLouise Keating’s Women Reading Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde. Journal of Homosexuality 37.2 (1999): 109-113.

1998

“Reading and Writing ‘Immunity’: Children and the Anti-Body.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 23.3 (1998): 134-142. Reprinted in Over the Rainbow: Queer Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Ed. Kenneth Kidd and Michelle Ann Abate. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. 183-200.

1993

“Randall Kenan.” In Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel Nelson. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1993. 23236.

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