Dr. Fady Shanouda

Biography

Fady Shanouda is a Critical Disability Studies scholar whose research examines the experiences of disabled mad students in higher education. His scholarly contributions lie at the theoretical and pedagogical intersections of Disability, Mad, and Fat Studies, including socio-historical examinations of the interconnections among colonialism, racism, ableism/sanism, and fatphobia. He has published several scholarly articles addressing disability/mad-related issues in higher education, Canadian disability history, and anti-fat bias in medicine, as well as community-based learning. Shanouda is committed to research that simultaneously impacts academic thought and individuals in the community. To achieve this goal, he created and hosts a podcast called 'Disability Saves the World,' which invites activists, scholars, and artists to speak about envisioning crip/mad/fat thought and activism. His research focuses on diversely-positioned disabled, fat, POC, and immigrant settlers living and working in creating on the ancestral traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, Huron-Wendat, and the unceded territories of the Algonquin nation.

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