Dr. Susan Antebi

Biography

Susan Antebi is a Professor of Latin American literature, with research focusing on disability, corporeality, and eugenic legacies, particularly in the context of contemporary twentieth-century Mexican cultural production. She is the author of 'Embodied Archive: Disability Post-Revolutionary Mexican Cultural Production' (University of Michigan Press, 2021), which was awarded the 2021 Tobin Siebers Prize in Disability Studies in the Humanities and the 2022 LASA Mexico Section Prize for Best Book in Humanities. Her earlier monograph, 'Carnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability' (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009), expands on these themes. She has co-edited volumes such as 'Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature, Film, and Disability Studies' and 'Matter of Disability: Materiality, Biopolitics, and Crip Affect.' Antebi has received funding from SSHRC Insight Grants and the Chancellor Jackman Faculty Research Fellowship. Currently, she is working on a book entitled 'Magical Thinking and Disability Sensoria,' which explores interrelated stories of madness, medical diagnoses, and the paranormal. Her graduate seminar offerings include topics like 'Transparency Politics in Contemporary Mexican Literature' and 'Disability and Latin American Cultural Production.' At the undergraduate level, she teaches courses on 'Literary Landscapes of the Mexican Revolution' and 'Latin American Performative Expression.'

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