Clare Mullaney
Assistant Professor, Disability Rhetorics
Contact
Department of English
Office: 605 Strode
Email: cmullaney@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; A.B., Bryn Mawr College
Courses
American Literature, Practice of Criticism, American Literature II, American Literature 1800-1899, Literary Editing, Disability and Literature, Disability Theory (grad)
Research Interests
disability studies, nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature, material text studies, editorship studies, and reading methods
Clare Mullaney's research and teaching rest at the intersection between nineteenth- and early twentieth-century U.S. literature, disability studies, and material text studies. Her book project, A Word Made Flesh: Disability Writing and Editorship in U.S. Literature and Culture, reveals how publishing networks recover writing about disability without erasing marks of authors' impairments or access needs from the page. Her work has received awards from the American Antiquarian Society, the Emily Dickinson International Society, Pennsylvania State University's First Book Institute, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Public Library, the Society for Disability Studies, and the Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists. She is currently a junior member of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the University of Virginia's Rare Book School. In 2023, she received Clemson University's John B. and Thelma A. Gentry Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities and has previously taught at Bryn Mawr and Hamilton Colleges.
Selected Professional Works
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
"Cripistemologies of Memory: Dementia, Disappearance, and Mourning." Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. 18.2 (2024): 153-171.
"Reimagining Classroom Participation in the Era of Disability Justice and COVID-19." Pedagogy. 23.1 (2023): 51-68.
“Accessing Book History: The Crip Editorial Project.” Teaching the History of the Book, ed. Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd, University of Massachusetts Press (2023): 225-236.
"Extra Consciousness, Extra Limbs: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship.” Special Issue, “Senses with/out Subjects,” American Literature. 95.3 (2023): 487-512.
“No Pity: Mary Wilkins Freeman, Disability, and the ‘Tears of Things.’” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory. 78.3 (2022): 61-85.
“Feminist Disability Studies and the Problem of Recovery.” Gender in American Literature and Culture, ed. Jean Lutes and Jennifer Travis, Cambridge University Press (2021): 316-331.
“‘Not to Discover Weakness is the Artifice of Strength’: Emily Dickinson, Constraint, and a Disability Poetics.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. 7.1 (2019): 49-81.
“Emily Dickinson, Disability, and Crip Editorial Theory,” The New Emily Dickinson Studies, ed. Michelle Kohler, Cambridge University Press (2019): 280-298.
Journalism
“Bodies’ Return to Physical Books: Teaching through and alongside BookTok and Bookstagram.” Post-45, Contemporary Literature from the Classroom Cluster. May 14, 2024.
“The shift online has finally made space for disabled students.” Times Higher Education. February 8, 2021.
"The Social Advantage of Pockets." Object Lessons Series, The Atlantic. December 21, 2016.
Reviews & Interviews
“‘Our Hands’: Reading with DeafBlind Poet John Lee Clark.” Public Books. May 4, 2023.
"Antisociality and Neuroqueerness." M. Remi Yergeau’s Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 26.2 (2020): 355-357.
“Disability Studies: Foundations and Key Concepts.” JSTOR Daily. April 13, 2019.
