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Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow
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Social and Cultural Analysis
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Gender and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D., 2009 (American Studies) George Washington University, B.A., 1997, magna cum laude (English and Hispanic Literatures and Cultures), Stony Brook University
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Areas of Research/Interest: Disability studies, queer theory, US media and cultural history, 20th century American literature, film and television studies, and youth culture.
Julie Passanante Elman received a Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University in 2008. Her dissertation, Medicalizing Edutainment: Enforcing Disability in the Teen Body, 1970-2000, historicizes shifting cultural constructions of adolescence to argue that disability has been a central trope through which American teen citizenship and coming-of-age have been culturally imagined. Interdisciplinary in approach and materials, the project analyzes news media, film, television, young adult literature, legislation, policy debates, technology, and neuroscience. Julie's broad research interests include the intersections of disability studies and queer theory, 20th century American media and cultural history, American literature, science & technology, and youth cultures.
Select Publications:
After School Special Education: Rehabilitative Television, Teen Citizenship, and Able-Bodiedness,” Television and New Media, Forthcoming 2010.
“Unsightly Evictions.” Book Review of Susan Schweik’s The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public for H-Human Rights, Forthcoming Fall 2009.
“Life Goes On,” in Susan Burch and Paul K. Longmore, The Encyclopedia of American Disability History (New York: Facts on File, 2009).
“Oedipus Borealis: The Aberrant Body in Old Icelandic Myth and Saga, by Lois Bragg.” Book Review. Disability Studies Quarterly, Spring 2005, Vol. 25, No. 2.
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