Research Focus Group Talk: Assistive Technologies and Erotic Adaptation: Queer Disability in the Renaissance

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Simone Chess will focus on early modern disability, queerness, and adaptive technologies. Chess is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at Wayne State University in Detroit. She is the author of Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations (Routledge, 2016) and coeditor, with Colby Gordon and Will Fisher, of a special issue on “Early Modern Trans Studies” for the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies.

Cosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Early Modern Center

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