Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University. Her fields of study are feminist theory, American literature, and disability studies. She is author of Staring: How We Look and Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture; co-editor of Re-Presenting Disability: Museums and the Politics of Display and Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities; and editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. "