Lennard J. Davis

An award-winning author of twelve books, LENNARD J. DAVIS is Professor of English, Professor of Disability and Human Development, and Professor of Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as the director of Project Biocultures a think-tank devoted to disability and medicine issues impacting our culture. Davis's influential books on disability including The Disability Studies Reader and Enforcing Normalcy have won numerous prizes and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights award. His memoir My Sense of Silence was chosen Editor's Choice Book for the Chicago Tribune and nominated for the Book Critics Circle Award for 2000. A co-founder of the Modern Language Association's Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession, he is on the board of several academic journals and regularly writes for the New York Times, The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications.