Lennard J. Davis, professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of Disability Studies and Human Development in the College of Health and Human Development Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, is scheduled to speak February 8, 2006 on Disability and Identity: Rethinking Normalcy on Wednesday, February 8th in Room 220 (Public Events Room) at Eggers Hall.  Davis' works on disability include Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body (Verso, 1995), The Disability Studies Reader (Routledge, 1996), and Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions (NYU Press, 2002). He is currently working on Obsession: The History of Fascination and the People Who Made it a Disease. He has also written a memoir, My Sense of Silence (University of Illinois Press, 2000), describing growing up in a Deaf family. He was co-founder of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession, and is on the board of several academic journals.

This lecture is sponsored by The Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies; The Beyond Compliance Coordinating Committee (BCCC); The School of Education; Cultural Foundations of Education; The Department of History; The Disability Law and Policy Program; The Disability Studies Program; The English Department; The LGBT Studies Program; The Public Interest Law Firm (PILF); The School of Social Work and Women's Studies.

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