Education

B. A. Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1996; English and Cultural Studies (Class of 1921 Award for Outstanding Senior Thesis)

Graduate Certificate, University of Michigan, 1992; Women's Studies.

M.A. University of Michigan, 1992; English Language and Literature

Ph. D. University of Michigan, 1996; English Language and Literature (with minors in Film Studies and Gender Studies)

Research Interests

Comparative modes of institutionalization and disability management (globally and historically); historical applications of eugenic ideologies; the accessible university; disability representation in traditions of cinema; global, independent disability cinema

Publications. Monographs and Edited Volumes:

1. Snyder, SL, Mitchell, DT. Cultural Locations of Disability. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.

2. Snyder SL, Mitchell DT. Eds. Volume 5: Primary Source Encyclopedia of Disability. Thousand Oaks: Sage P, 2005.

3. Snyder SL, Brueggemann BJ, and Garland-Thomson R. Eds. Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. New York: PMLA, 2002.

4. Mitchell DT, Snyder SL, Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2001.

5. Mitchell DT, Snyder SL, Eds. The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1997.

Films: (Writer and Director)

1. 2004 Self-Preservation: the Art of Riva Lehrer (30 min) Brace Yourselves Productions (5 awards)

2. 2003 Disability Takes on the Arts. (16 min) Brace Yourselves Productions (2 awards and profiled screenings)

3. 2002 A World Without Bodies (34 min) Program Development Associates (8 awards)

4. 1997 VITAL SIGNS: Crip Culture Talks Back (48 min) Fanlight Distributors (Grand Prize, Rehabilitation International, Auckland, New Zealand, and 8 other awards)

Articles/Book Chapters: (Recent and Selected)

1. Snyder SL, Mitchell, DM. "Eugenics and the racial genome: politics at the molecular level," in Patterns of Prejudice 40.4/5 November 2007.

2. Snyder SL, Mitchell, DT. "Disability Studies and the Contest of Modernity," in From Deformity to Disability: Bodies, Images, and Experience, 1650-2000. Ed. D. Turner & K. Stagg, London: Routledge, 2006.

3. Snyder SL, Mitchell, DT. "Die Aufmerksamkeit wieder auf den Körper richten. Disability Studies und der Widerstand gegenüber Verkörperung," Disability Studies: Ein Lesebuch. Ed. J. Weisser & C. Renggli. Lucerne: SZH: 77-105.

4. Mitchell DT, Snyder SL. "Masquerades of Impairment: Charity as a Confidence Game." Leviathan. 5.1 Autumn 2006: 35-60.

5. Snyder SL, "Unfixing Disability: Byron's The Deformed Transformed." Bodies in Commotion. Ed. C. Sandhal and P. Auslander. U of Michigan P, 2006.

6. Snyder SL, Mitchell DT. "The Eugenic Atlantic: race, disability, and the making of an international eugenic science, 1800-1945," Disability & Society 18.7 Dec. 2003: 843-864.

7. Snyder SL, Mitchell, DT. "Die ‘Subnormale' Nation: Von Der Erfindung Einer Behinderten Minderheit (1890 Bis 1930)," Ed. P. Lutz, T. Macho, G. Staupe, Zirden. Der [Im-]perfecte Mensch: Metamorphosen von Normalitat un Abweichung. Koln: Bohlau Verlag Gmb & Cie, 2003: 62-77.

8. Snyder SL. "The Visual Foucauldian: Discipline and Punish in Fred Wiseman's ‘Multi-handicapped' Series." Journal of Medical Humanities. 3-4 Winter 2003: 281-289.

9. Interview: "Disability Studies, Körper und das komplexe Feld der Identitäten." [von Anja Tervooren]. Die Pholosophin. 13.25 June 2002: 115-124.

10. Mitchell DT, Snyder, SL, "Out of the ashes of eugenics: diagnostic regimes in the United States and the making of a disability minority," Patterns of Prejudice. 36.1 Spring 2002: 79-103.

11. Snyder SL, "Infinities of Forms: Figuring Disability in Artistic Traditions. Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities." Ed. Brueggemann, & Garland-Thomson. New York: PMLA, 2002.

12. Snyder SL, Brueggeman, B, Garland-Thomson, R. "Reading Disability, Teaching Disability Studies" Introduction. Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities." New York: PMLA , 2002.

13. Mitchell, DT, Snyder, SL, "Re-engaging the Body: Disability Studies and the Resistance to Embodiment," Public Culture: A Journal of the Global Modern 35.3 Fall 2001: 367-389.

14. Mitchell, DT, Snyder, SL, "Representation and Its Discontents: The Uneasy Home of Disability in Literature and Film," The Disability Studies Handbook. Ed. G. Albrecht, M. Bury, and K. Seelman. Newbury Park: Sage P, 2001: 195-218.

Museum Exhibits:

Director and Curator: Chicago Disability History Exhibit, National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, April 20 to September 30, 2006; Haverford College Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 23 to November 26, 2006.

Funded Scholarship and Directorships (not including public lectures, invited talks, and graduate school fellowships)

2005-2007 Director, Chicago Disability Exhibit History Funding, National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum; Maria Magnus Foundation; Beatrice Mayer Foundation; Equip for Equality; Haverford College (38,000 plus in kind)

2005-2006 Director, Screening Disability Film Festival, Chicago's Cultural Center (20,000)

2005-2006 Director, Illinois Humanities Council Grant (10,000)

2003-2004 Director, Disability Studies Think Tank, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (10,000)

2004 Director, UIC Faculty Research Grant, Humanities Laboratory, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago (8,000)

2003-2004 Director, DAAD/Einstein Forum Summer Institute Grant, (45,000); Einstein Forum and U of Potsdam

2004 Director, Film & Video Grant, Cummings Foundation/Beatrice Mayer Foundation (5,000)

2003-2004 Director, Mentoring in the Arts, Kennedy Center Foundation for the Arts (8,000)

2003, Faculty/Co-director, Seminar in Disability Studies, U of Costa Rica, San Jose

2002-2003 Director, NEH Summer Institute for Teachers, Disability Studies in the Humanities (189,000)

2002-2003 Co-PI, OVCR Faculty Research Grant, "Separate But Never Equal." U of Illinois at Chicago (7,000)

2000-2001 Project Coordinator, Media Awareness Action Project, Community Trust Foundation (11,000)

2000-2001 Co-PI, Film and Video Development Grant, True North Foundation, Berkeley, California (18,000)

2000 Faculty, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, San Francisco State U

2000 Faculty Research Grant, Northern Michigan U (4,000)

1999 Provost Office Special Projects Grant, Northern Michigan U (5,000)

1995 Faculty Research Grant, Northern Michigan U and the Mayo Clinic (4,000)

Editorships

Senior Editor: Encyclopedia of Disability. 5 Volumes. Thousand Oaks: Sage P, 2005.

Illustrations Editor: Encyclopedia of Disability. 5 Volumes. Thousand Oaks: Sage P, 2005.

Series Editor: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. The University of Michigan Press. (Beginning in 1997; now with 15 titles)

Public Service

Executive, Founding Ad Hoc, Access, and Programming Committee s: Bodies of Work: Chicago Festival of Disability Arts (2003 to 2006).

Consulting Committees: Victory Gardens Crip Slam Sundays (2005 to present)

Founding Member: MLA Division on Disability Issues and Committee on Disability Issues (1995 to 2000)

Elected Board Member, Treasurer, and Former Program Director for the Society for Disability Studies. (2002 to 2005)