Tobin Siebers
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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 was born January 29, 1953 in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. He was diagnosed with poliomyelitis diagnosis at the age of two years old and lived with post-polio syndrome for the rest of his life. Siebers received his BA 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 in 1980. [1]
Siebers first wrote about his experience living with polio in his 1998 essay "My Withered Limb."[2] which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1999. [3] 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."[4] 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 in the Humanities [5]
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- ^ 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.
- ^ Siebers, Tobin (Winter 2021). "My Withered Limb". Michigan Quarterly Review. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
- ^ Siebers, Tobin (October 25, 2011). "Tobin Siebers: 2011 Fall Performing The Body Politic: Transgressions, Interventions, and Expressive Culture". Scripps College. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
- ^ Kuppers, Petra (January 30, 2015). "Remembering Tobin Siebers, English professor, disability studies advocate | The University Record". record.umich.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
- ^ 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.