TRIC Pedagogy Workshop | Transformative Intersectional Collective

In this opening presentation for the Transformative Intersectional Collective (TRIC) Pedagogy Workshop, Dr. Nirmala Erevelles prompts attendees to think about how to teach and engage disability in our courses and classrooms.

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Dr. Nirmala Erevelles is Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Alabama. Her teaching and research interests lie in the areas of disability studies, critical race theory, transnational feminism, sociology of education, and postcolonial studies. Specifically, her research focuses on the unruly, messy, unpredictable, and taboo body—a habitual outcast in educational (and social) contexts. She is the author of Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Towards a Transformative Body Politic (Palgrave 2012).