New Issue of JLCDS (6:2) is now available: Popular Genres and Disability Representation

The new issue of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS) is now available.  Volume 6: Issue 2 is a special issue on Popular Genres and Disability Representation and is guest edited by Ria Cheyne

Articles: 

• Introduction: Popular Genres and Disability Representation ~ Ria Cheyne
• Disabled Sexuality, Incorporated: The Compulsions of Popular Romance ~ Emily Baldy
• The Mysteries of the In-Between: Re-reading Disability in E. Nesbit’s Late Victorian Gothic Fiction ~ Kathleen A. Miller 
• The Problem of Recognition: The Disabled Male Veteran and Masculinity as Spectacle in William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives ~ Will Kanyusik
• “Nothing Feels as Real”: Teen Sick-Lit, Sadness, and the Condition of Adolescence ~ Julie Passanante Elman
• Genetics at the scene of the crime: DeCODING Tainted Blood ~ Lucy Burke
• Disability on Trial: Complex Realities Staged for Courtroom Drama – The Case of Jodi Picoult ~ Michelle Jarman 

Comment from the Field:

• Theorizing Normalcy and the Mundane: Second International Conference ~ Jenny Slater

JLCDS is available from Liverpool University Press, online and in print, to institutional and individual subscribers; it is also part of the Project MUSE collection to which the links below point.  

For more information, please contact: Dr. David Bolt: boltd@hope.ac.uk

Are you a Postgrad working on ‘genetics’ from a disability studies perspective? (UK)

Call for Expressions of Interest: Genetics and Society

The Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society (PFGS) is calling for expressions of interest in hosting Regional Meetings (in the UK) during the academic year 2011-12. Thanks to generous funding from the ESRC via the Genomics Forum, we are able to offer small grants of up to £400 for postgraduates to host Regional Meetings at their home institutions.

Regional Meetings are designed as informal events for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from across the UK to come together in a small, supportive environment to exchange ideas, generate new questions, and develop connections between postgraduate and early career researchers in the life, health and social sciences.

Meetings may be focused on any topic broadly related to genetics and society, or the methodologies used to research this area. In particular, we would welcome hearing from those doing research in the health and biological sciences, as these areas have been generally under-represented. Postgraduate students working on issues related to genetics and society from a disability studies perspective are particularly invited to express an interest.  Events, however, should be of interest to a wide range of disciplines.

To apply, send an abstract of no more than 300 words in the first instance to pfgsmtgs@gmail.com  by November 15th, 2011. The abstract should outline your proposed title, the subject and format of your day, and the venue and possible dates.

The PFGS was founded in 1998 to provide a supportive network for postgraduate researchers from a variety of disciplines who are exploring questions around the intersection of bioscience and society.

For more details about PFGS, who we are and what we do, visit the PFGS blog at http://pfgs.wordpress.com.