Disability, Debility, and Crip Theory Working Group

The Disability, Debility, and Crip Theory Working Group brings together graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and researchers, as well as faculty members to discuss disability studies in our contemporary moment, share work in progress, and foster community among disability studies scholars in diverse fields and at different stages of their career at Princeton. An intersectional approach is pertinent to this working group–our areas of interest range from disability and race, queer/trans/crip studies, justice and policy, mobility and migration, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, film and media, aesthetics and artistic practice, performance studies, and philosophies of language. Members of the working group support cross-disciplinary dialogue with their experience across the departments of African American Studies, Politics, History, Comparative Literature, Interdisciplinary Humanities, French & Italian, Philosophy, and Art & Archaeology, among others. The working group meets monthly to build upon our understandings of disability/debility, exchange texts, and respond to our colleagues’ work in the field in a way that encourages testing out new ideas. The group is open to anyone interested in disability studies, please contact Sonya Merutka at [email protected] for more information or questions. 

The Disability, Debility, and Crip Theory Working Group is supported by the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Interdisciplinary Humanities Program.

Recent Publications by Working Group Participants


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