Ann M. Fox
Professor of English
Education
- Ph. D., M.A. Indiana University, Bloomington
- B.A., B.S. The University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Areas of Expertise
- Disability Studies in Drama and Art
- Modern and Contemporary Drama
- Visual and Cultural Studies
- Graphic Medicine
- American Studies
Background
I specialize in 20th- and 21st-century dramatic literature and disability studies. My teaching interests include modern and contemporary drama and disability in drama, literature, and visual culture. For me, disability studies is a means to understanding the transformative history and power of disability. The range of human variation is dazzling, and working to center crip history, representation, and knowledge is a powerful act of creativity and justice.
I have published over thirty peer-reviewed scholarly essays on drama, disability, and representation. Currently, I belong to the Fulbright Specialist Program. I was an American Association of University Women American Postdoctoral Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Disability Studies Fellow, National Humanities Center Jesse Ball DuPont Summer Seminar Fellow, Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow, IES Faculty Development Seminar Fellow, and a seminar leader for the Charlotte Teacher's Institute (CTI). I have also been a Davidson College Boswell Family Faculty Fellow.
I work as a curator of disability art, and my most recent project was a three-year collaboration with Dr. Jessica Cooley ‘05 on an online and in-person exhibition at the Ford Foundation Gallery: Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA. I have co-curated three disability-related visual arts exhibitions in the Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College: RE/FORMATIONS: Disability, Women, and Sculpture, STARING, and Re/Presenting HIV/AIDS.
Teaching
- ENG 110 Graphic Medicine: Drawing Disability
- ENG 220 Literary Analysis
- ENG 261 Modern Drama
- BIO 263/ENG 285 Representations of HIV/AIDS
- ENG 288 Contemporary American Multicultural Drama
- ENG 388 Contemporary Theatre
- ENG 271 Disability in Literature and Art
- ENG 374 Picturing Disability
- ENG 376 Representing Fat Bodies
- WRI 101 Claiming Disability; Pandemics; Democracy's Bodies; Writing About Drama; Extraordinary Bodies
- Seminars: Disability in Literature and Art; Contemporary American Feminism and Theater; Early American Drama; Disability in American Drama; Contemporary Drama
