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'''Tobin Siebers''' (January 29, 1953 – January 29, 2015) was an American professor of literature, art, and design at the [[University of Michigan]], and a key figure in the development of [[disability studies]].
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== Early life and education ==
'''Tobin Siebers''' (1953–2015) was a professor of literature, art, and design at the [[University of Michigan]], and a key figure in the development of [[disability studies]]. Siebers received a [[Polio|poliomyelitis]] diagnosis at two years old and lived with [[post-polio syndrome]] for the rest of his life, an experience he described in his essay "My Withered Limb."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Siebers |first=Tobin |date=Winter, 2021 |title=My Withered Limb |url=https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2021/02/my-withered-limb/ |url-status=live |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=Michigan Quarterly Review}} </ref> His important books include ''Disability Theory'' (2008) and ''Disability Aesthetics'' ({{ISBN|9781501728112}}, 2010). Performance artist and disability activist [[Petra Kuppers]] referred to these works as "field defining."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kuppers |first=Petra |date=January 30, 2015 |title=Remembering Tobin Siebers, English professor, disability studies advocate {{!}} The University Record |url=https://record.umich.edu/articles/tobin-siebers-english-professor-and-disability-studies-advocate-dies/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=record.umich.edu}}</ref> In 2015, the University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature, the U-M Press, and U-M Library established The Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Watkinson |first=Charles |date=January 30, 2016 |title=War on Autism awarded inaugural Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies {{!}} University of Michigan Press |url=https://press.umich.edu/Blog/2016/01/War-on-Autism-awarded-inaugural-Tobin-Siebers-Prize-for-Disability-Studies |access-date=2024-05-15 |website=press.umich.edu}}</ref>
Siebers was born January 29, 1953 in [[Kaukauna, Wisconsin]], the son of Harold Siebers and Marion Jansen Siebers.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1987-07-10 |title=Mrs. Harold Siebers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-crescent-obituary-for-marion-si/148433681/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |work=The Post-Crescent |pages=22 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He was diagnosed with [[polio]]myelitis at the age of two years old and lived with [[post-polio syndrome]] for the rest of his life. Siebers graduated from [[Kaukauna High School]] in 1971.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1971-06-03 |title=Kaukauna High Lists Top Students |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-crescent-kaukauna-high-lists-to/148433216/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |work=The Post-Crescent |pages=28 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He earned a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] in 1975, MA in comparative literature from the [[Binghamton University|State University of New York at Binghamton]] in 1976, and a PhD in comparative literature from [[Johns Hopkins University]] in 1980.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Virakhovskaya |first=Olga |date=February 2017 |title=Finding Aid: Tobin Siebers papers, 1983-2013 (majority within 1986-2007) |url=https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-bhl-2017008#background |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library}}</ref>
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== Career ==
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Siebers first wrote about his experience living with polio in his 1998 essay "My Withered Limb."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Siebers |first=Tobin |date=Winter 2021 |title=My Withered Limb |url=https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2021/02/my-withered-limb/ |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=Michigan Quarterly Review}}</ref> which was nominated for a [[Pushcart Prize]] in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Siebers |first=Tobin |date=October 25, 2011 |title=Tobin Siebers: 2011 Fall Performing The Body Politic: Transgressions, Interventions, and Expressive Culture |url=https://www.scrippscollege.edu/hi/2011-fall/tobin-siebers |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Scripps College}}</ref> His important books include ''Disability Theory'' (2008) and ''Disability Aesthetics'' (2010). In ''Disability Theory'' Siebers writes that "Disability is not a physical or mental defect but a cultural and minority identity."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Raughley |first=Lynne |date=April 14, 2015 |title=Disability studies prize honors the late Tobin Siebers |url=https://record.umich.edu/articles/disability-studies-prize-honrs-late-tobin-siebers/ |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Michigan Record}}</ref> Performance artist and disability activist [[Petra Kuppers]] referred to these works as "field defining."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Kuppers |first=Petra |date=January 30, 2015 |title=Remembering Tobin Siebers, English professor, disability studies advocate {{!}} The University Record |url=https://record.umich.edu/articles/tobin-siebers-english-professor-and-disability-studies-advocate-dies/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=record.umich.edu}}</ref> He received the James T. Neubacher Award in 2009, from the Council for Disability Concerns.<ref name=":2" />


== Publications ==
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* ''The Ethics of Criticism'' (1990)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Siebers |first=Tobin |url=https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62066 |title=The Ethics of Criticism |date=1990 |publisher=Cornell University Press |hdl=20.500.12657/62066 |isbn=978-1-5017-2141-0 |language=English}}</ref>
* ''Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism'' (1993)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Siebers |first=Tobin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7DKz2GQMUMC&q=Tobin+Siebers |title=Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism |date=1993-04-29 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-535992-3 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''Heterotopia: Postmodern Utopia and the Body Politic'' (1994, editor)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Siebers |first=Tobin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=77MlivAMvowC&q=Tobin+Siebers |title=Heterotopia: Postmodern Utopia and the Body Politic |date=1994 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-10557-1 |language=en}}</ref>
* "My Withered Limb" (1998)<ref name=":1" />
* ''The Body Aesthetic: From Fine Art to Body Modification'' (2000, editor)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Siebers |first=Tobin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4K7zUFP9CyYC&q=Tobin+Siebers |title=The Body Aesthetic: From Fine Art to Body Modification |date=2000 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-08673-3 |language=en}}</ref>
* "Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body" (2001)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Siebers |first=Tobin |date=2001 |title=Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3054594 |journal=American Literary History |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=737–754 |doi=10.1093/alh/13.4.737 |jstor=3054594 |issn=0896-7148}}</ref>
* "Disability as Masquerade" (2004)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Siebers |first=Tobin |date=March 2004 |title=Disability as Masquerade |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/170316 |journal=Literature and Medicine |language=en |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=1–22 |doi=10.1353/lm.2004.0010 |pmid=15264507 |issn=1080-6571}}</ref>
* ''Disability Theory'' (2008)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Siebers |first=Tobin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REc_DwAAQBAJ&q=Tobin+Siebers |title=Disability Theory |date=2008-06-16 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-05039-0 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''Zerbrochene Schönheit'' (2009)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Levin |first1=Mike |last2=Siebers |first2=Tobin |date=2010-06-01 |title=The Art of Disability: An Interview with Tobin Siebers |url=https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/1263 |journal=Disability Studies Quarterly |language=en |volume=30 |issue=2 |doi=10.18061/dsq.v30i2.1263 |issn=2159-8371|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* ''Disability Aesthetics'' (2010)
* "A Sexual Culture for Disabled People" (2012)<ref>{{Citation |last=Siebers |first=Tobin |title=A Sexual Culture for Disabled People |date=2012-01-04 |work=Sex and Disability |pages=37–53 |editor-last=McRuer |editor-first=Robert |editor-last2=Mollow |editor-first2=Anna |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780822394877-003/html |access-date=2024-05-31 |publisher=Duke University Press |language=en |doi=10.1515/9780822394877-003 |isbn=978-0-8223-9487-7}}</ref>
* "Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment: For Identity Politics in a New Register" (2016)<ref>Siebers, Tobin. "Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment: For Identity Politics in a New Register" in Lennard J. Davis, ed., ''The Disability Studies Reader'' (Taylor & Francis 2016): 313-332. {{ISBN|9781317397861}}</ref>
* "Returning the Social to the Social Model" (2019)<ref>Siebers, Tobin. "Returning the Social to the Social Model" in David T. Mitchell, Susan Antabi, and Sharon L. Snyder, eds., ''The Matter of Disability: Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect'' (University of Michigan Press 2019): .39-47. {{ISBN|9780472054114}}</ref>

== Death and legacy ==
Siebers died in 2015, at the age of 62.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Northen |first=Michael |date=2019 |title=Tobin Siebers: A Tribute |url=https://wordgathering.com/past_issues/issue33/siebers.html |journal=Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature |issue=33}}</ref> His papers are in the collection of the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library.<ref name=":0" /> In 2015, the [[University of Michigan Press]] and Department of English Language and Literature established The Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities, for best book-length manuscript on a topic of pressing urgency to disability studies in the humanities.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Watkinson |first=Charles |date=January 30, 2016 |title=War on Autism awarded inaugural Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies {{!}} University of Michigan Press |url=https://press.umich.edu/Blog/2016/01/War-on-Autism-awarded-inaugural-Tobin-Siebers-Prize-for-Disability-Studies |access-date=2024-05-15 |website=press.umich.edu}}</ref>

==References==
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Latest revision as of 19:08, 12 June 2024

Tobin Siebers (January 29, 1953 – January 29, 2015) was an American professor of literature, art, and design at the University of Michigan, and a key figure in the development of disability studies.

Early life and education

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Siebers was born January 29, 1953 in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, the son of Harold Siebers and Marion Jansen Siebers.[1] He was diagnosed with poliomyelitis at the age of two years old and lived with post-polio syndrome for the rest of his life. Siebers graduated from Kaukauna High School in 1971.[2] He earned a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975, MA in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1976, and a PhD in comparative literature from Johns Hopkins University in 1980.[3]

Career

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Siebers first wrote about his experience living with polio in his 1998 essay "My Withered Limb."[4] which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1999.[5] His important books include Disability Theory (2008) and Disability Aesthetics (2010). In Disability Theory Siebers writes that "Disability is not a physical or mental defect but a cultural and minority identity."[6] Performance artist and disability activist Petra Kuppers referred to these works as "field defining."[7] He received the James T. Neubacher Award in 2009, from the Council for Disability Concerns.[7]

Publications

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  • The Ethics of Criticism (1990)[8]
  • Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism (1993)[9]
  • Heterotopia: Postmodern Utopia and the Body Politic (1994, editor)[10]
  • "My Withered Limb" (1998)[4]
  • The Body Aesthetic: From Fine Art to Body Modification (2000, editor)[11]
  • "Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body" (2001)[12]
  • "Disability as Masquerade" (2004)[13]
  • Disability Theory (2008)[14]
  • Zerbrochene Schönheit (2009)[15]
  • Disability Aesthetics (2010)
  • "A Sexual Culture for Disabled People" (2012)[16]
  • "Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment: For Identity Politics in a New Register" (2016)[17]
  • "Returning the Social to the Social Model" (2019)[18]

Death and legacy

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Siebers died in 2015, at the age of 62.[7][19] His papers are in the collection of the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library.[3] In 2015, the University of Michigan Press and Department of English Language and Literature established The Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities, for best book-length manuscript on a topic of pressing urgency to disability studies in the humanities.[20]

References

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  1. ^ "Mrs. Harold Siebers". The Post-Crescent. 1987-07-10. p. 22. Retrieved 2024-05-31 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Kaukauna High Lists Top Students". The Post-Crescent. 1971-06-03. p. 28. Retrieved 2024-05-31 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b Virakhovskaya, Olga (February 2017). "Finding Aid: Tobin Siebers papers, 1983-2013 (majority within 1986-2007)". University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
  4. ^ a b Siebers, Tobin (Winter 2021). "My Withered Limb". Michigan Quarterly Review. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
  5. ^ Siebers, Tobin (October 25, 2011). "Tobin Siebers: 2011 Fall Performing The Body Politic: Transgressions, Interventions, and Expressive Culture". Scripps College. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
  6. ^ Raughley, Lynne (April 14, 2015). "Disability studies prize honors the late Tobin Siebers". Michigan Record. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
  7. ^ a b c Kuppers, Petra (January 30, 2015). "Remembering Tobin Siebers, English professor, disability studies advocate | The University Record". record.umich.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  8. ^ Siebers, Tobin (1990). The Ethics of Criticism. Cornell University Press. hdl:20.500.12657/62066. ISBN 978-1-5017-2141-0.
  9. ^ Siebers, Tobin (1993-04-29). Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-535992-3.
  10. ^ Siebers, Tobin (1994). Heterotopia: Postmodern Utopia and the Body Politic. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-10557-1.
  11. ^ Siebers, Tobin (2000). The Body Aesthetic: From Fine Art to Body Modification. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-08673-3.
  12. ^ Siebers, Tobin (2001). "Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body". American Literary History. 13 (4): 737–754. doi:10.1093/alh/13.4.737. ISSN 0896-7148. JSTOR 3054594.
  13. ^ Siebers, Tobin (March 2004). "Disability as Masquerade". Literature and Medicine. 23 (1): 1–22. doi:10.1353/lm.2004.0010. ISSN 1080-6571. PMID 15264507.
  14. ^ Siebers, Tobin (2008-06-16). Disability Theory. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-05039-0.
  15. ^ Levin, Mike; Siebers, Tobin (2010-06-01). "The Art of Disability: An Interview with Tobin Siebers". Disability Studies Quarterly. 30 (2). doi:10.18061/dsq.v30i2.1263. ISSN 2159-8371.
  16. ^ Siebers, Tobin (2012-01-04), McRuer, Robert; Mollow, Anna (eds.), "A Sexual Culture for Disabled People", Sex and Disability, Duke University Press, pp. 37–53, doi:10.1515/9780822394877-003, ISBN 978-0-8223-9487-7, retrieved 2024-05-31
  17. ^ Siebers, Tobin. "Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment: For Identity Politics in a New Register" in Lennard J. Davis, ed., The Disability Studies Reader (Taylor & Francis 2016): 313-332. ISBN 9781317397861
  18. ^ Siebers, Tobin. "Returning the Social to the Social Model" in David T. Mitchell, Susan Antabi, and Sharon L. Snyder, eds., The Matter of Disability: Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect (University of Michigan Press 2019): .39-47. ISBN 9780472054114
  19. ^ Northen, Michael (2019). "Tobin Siebers: A Tribute". Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature (33).
  20. ^ Watkinson, Charles (January 30, 2016). "War on Autism awarded inaugural Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies | University of Michigan Press". press.umich.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
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