Friday Speaker Series: Sunaura Taylor

Dr. Sunaura Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Society and Environment. Taylor is a scholar and artist who works at the intersection of disability studies, environmental humanities, animal studies, environmental justice, feminist science studies, and art practice. Her research situates disability and ableism as central forces shaping human relationships to the more-than-human world. Concerned with relationships between altered bodily capacity, vulnerability, and systems of exploitation across species and ecological boundaries, her works crosses a range of disciplines, mediums, and audiences.

For this lecture, Dr. Taylor will be presenting on her current research project, which asks how disability studies might alter the way we think about and respond to our current regime of environmental devastation. Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert suggests that new and generative understandings of disability and nature emerge when we follow the trails of disability that are created when ecosystems are contaminated, depleted, and profoundly altered.