Encountering Ability: On the Relational Nature of Human Performance

In Encountering Ability, Scott DeShong considers the philosophical and political implications of how ability and its correlative, disability, come into being in thought, culture, and literature, revealing how the discourse of ability unsettles the very foundations of discourse and ability.

Scott DeShong, Ph.D. (1994), University of Iowa, is Professor of English at Quinebaug Valley Community College. His previous publications address posthumanism, ability and disability, race, twentieth-century United States literature, and the work of Emmanuel Levinas.