Robert McRuer

Robert McRuer is Professor of English at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is the author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (NYU 2006) and The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities (NYU 1997). With Anna Mollow, he co-edited Sex and Disability (Duke 2012) and with Abby L. Wilkerson, he co-edited Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies, which appeared as a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Duke 2003). He is completing a project on disability resistance to a globalized austerity politics.