Fulbright-Kommission · Lützowufer 26 · 10787 Berlin INTERCOUNTRY LECTURESHIP INFORMATION OF U.S. PROFESSORS Last Name: First Name: Fries Kenny German Host Institution: Period of Residence in Germany: Alice-Salomon-Hochschule für Soialarbeit und Sozialpäa April 1 to June 30, 2016 Email Address: Website: [email protected] www.kennyfries.com Present Position in the U.S.: Previous Positions: Faculty, MFA in Creative Writing Program, Goddard College Visiting Professor, Fordham University Instructor, Ontario College of Art and Design University Academic Field / Discipline: Academic Training and Degrees: Creative Writing/Disability Studies MFA, Theater Arts, Columbia University B.A., English and American Literature, Brandeis Universi Areas of Research: Disability Representation in Literature, Visual Art, Film, and Performance National Socialist "Euthanasia" programs Disability Rights Movements in the United States and Germany Disability in Japanese History and Culture Possible Lecture Topics: Writing Different Bodies: Disability Representation in U.S. Literature The Relationship between National Socialist Euthanasia Programs and the Holocaust Adaptation and Variation: New Narratives of the Body and Technology Intersectionality: Queer/Disability Arts The Poetry of Disability: The Reality of Metaphor, The Metaphor of Reality Demon Amputees and Disfigured Survivors, Closeted Presidents and Blind Lovers: Images of the Disabled Body in Western and Japanese Culture Publications (selected): The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory (Carroll and Graf) Body, Remember: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press) Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out (editor, Plume) "The Memory Stone," opera libretto, Houston Grand Opera Desert Walking: Poems (The Advocado Press) Anesthesia: Poems (The Advocado Press) “Umstrittene Räume (Contested Spaces), translated into German by Michael Zander” essay in “Behindertenpolitick (Disability Politics),” Junge Welt, special supplement, December 16, 2015 “Stolpern uber Geschichte (Stumbling over History),” translated into German by Michael Zander, essay in “Behindertenpolitick (Disabiity Politics),” special supplement, December 20, 2013 "How Adrienne Rich Taught Me to Drive," The Progressive and www.progressive.org, 2012. "Writing Against Canon, Writing Against Cliche; Creating a Canon, Becoming a Cliche," in The Alchemy and the Word: Writers Talk about Writing (Coimbra Editions, 2011) "Disability Identity: Behind and Beyond the Disabled/Nondisabled Dialectic, in Encyclopedia of American Disability History (Facts-on-File,, 2009). INTERCOUNTRY LECTURESHIP INFORMATION OF U.S. PROFESSORS
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