A Presentation of the English Department's William J. and Yvonne Hyde Colloquium Series.
Marie Moeller, English Department faculty member, will continue the English Department's 2010-11 William J. and Yvonne Hyde Colloquium Series with a presentation entitled "Pushing Boundaries of Normalcy: Employing Critical Disability Studies in Analyzing Medical Charity Websites." This presentation works at the intersections of technical and professional writing, disability studies, and gender studies to display how medical charity websites forward problematic narratives about women and women's bodies. Through the concept of normalcy, Dr. Moeller focuses on the Susan G. Komen Foundation's stance on the lesbian body and the disabled body to illustrate how technical and professional writing can, and does, do political work that targets and marginalizes particular populations of women. The presentation runs from 2:30-3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 29th, in 113 Wimberly Hall. The event is free and open to the public. To arrange for disability accommodations, contact [email protected] or call 785-8295.