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Professor Adams specializes in 20th- and 21st-century literatures of the United States and the Americas, disability studies and health humanities, media studies, theories of race, gender, and sexuality, and food studies.

Rachel Adamsis a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. His poetry has appeared in Barren Magazine, Wordgathering, Glass, South Carolina Review, Foglifter, and The New Engagement, as well as in two chapbooks, The Bone Setter (Damaged Goods Press, 2019) and Paring (Finishing Line Press, 2020). Alongside his scholarship, Lau frequently writes for venues of public scholarship like Synapsis: A Journal of Health Humanities, Public Books, Lapham’s Quarterly, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. His research and teaching focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, health humanities, and disability studies. Travis Chi Wing Lau is an Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College.

Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. Please email to request disability accommodations. In other words, bringing personhood back into the public health framework. Adams’s work on the role of personal narrative in disability studies, this talk reimagines the chronic pain crisis in America in terms of personal embodiment. Lau’s engagement with his chronic pain through his poetry, particularly on how disability justice and theory have informed his crip poetics of pain. A discussion between Travis Chi Wing Lau (Kenyon University) and Rachel Adams (Columbia University) on poetry as seen through the lens of chronic pain and disability.
