Reading Disability: A Conversation with Michael Bérubé

Reading Disability: A Conversation with Michael Bérubé

Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches disability studies and cultural studies. From 2010 to 2017, he was the Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at PSU, and served as president of the Modern Language Association in 2012. In this interview, Bérubé, who will be lecturing at NTNU and other institutions around Taiwan in May 2018, discusses the state of disability studies today: its implications for understanding literary, academic, and political narratives, its value in our personal lives, and its growth into a truly global discipline. The interview was conducted by Justin Prystash, with additional questions by Iping Liang of NTNU's English department.