US disability Arts & Social Change

In this course we will explore US disability culture and social change movements across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on the roles and uses of art. We will critically and creatively engage with wide-ranging primary sources, including community-based documentary films, posters and postcards, dance, memoirs, poetry, blogs, online exhibits, sculptures, and paintings. Secondary sources from disability studies will undergird our work. We will ask: who tells which stories; how are these stories told and to whom; what are their impacts?. Paying careful attention to interlocking identities and systems of power, we will also consider tensions within disability communities in the United States. (AMST 0260 or AMST 0307 or by waiver) For waiver please contact Susan Burch at sburch@middlebury.edu).