David T. Mitchell

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David T. Mitchell



David T. Mitchell is an American scholar and professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Washington University, renowned for his influential work in Disability Studies. He has authored and edited numerous landmark texts, including Narrative Prosthesis and The Body and Physical Difference, and co-edits the long-running Corporealities book series at the University of Michigan Press. His research explores disability representation across literature, culture, film, history, and political theory, offering new ethical frameworks for understanding embodiment. His recent work spans topics such as climate change, posthumanism, and biopolitics. In addition to his writing, Mitchell produces films as part of his academic inquiry. He is currentl ...more

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Economics of the Undead: Zo...

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Narrative Prosthesis: Disab...

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Cultural Locations of Disab...

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The Biopolitics of Disabili...

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This Abled Body: Rethinking...

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The Body and Physical Diffe...

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The Matter of Disability: M...

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A Cultural History of Disab...

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Beyond the Binary: Reconstr...

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“After all, if disability brings nothing but likeness to others into the world as its primary contribution to questions of lived embodiment, what value will it have to help us reimagine ways of artfully living less productive, less consumptive, and less exploitative lives?”
David T. Mitchell, The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment

“As a pedagogical approach, disability studies provides ways of legitimating the lives of those occupying peripheral embodiments as offering insightful alternative modes of nonnormative being-in-the-world. These two disability-centered approaches dovetail into what we call curricular cripistemologies. SONG”
David T. Mitchell, The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment

“The challenge of the politics of atypicality becomes particularly pressing within neoliberal biopolitics, particularly in that much of disability’s social oppression is based on medical classifications that overindividuate bodies within categories of pathology while turning labeled subjects into generic representations of their medicalized condition group.”
David T. Mitchell, The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment



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