In the summer of 2022, I attended the VariAbilities conference hosted by The Ringling Circus Museum in Sarasota, Florida. As a part of the program, presenters were invited to tour the museum’s extensive circus and print archive. Among these artifacts were a small collection of photo albums that featured both named and unnamed performers of…
Author: John Gulledge
John Gulledge is an Assistant Professor of English at Wittenberg University, where he teaches courses on early modern literature and disability studies. His current book project recovers the rhetorical and poetic method of energeia in early English drama and reveals the varied ways creative invention was patterned after encounters with disability. His most recent work can be found in the journal Inscriptions and the edited volume Disability, The environment, and Colonialism (Temple UP, 2024). He is also the co-founder of ‘The Puck Project’, a Shakespeare performance and ethics program for kids facing housing insecurity in Atlanta, GA.
Desiring Difference: A Chronicle of Wonder, Part One
Desiring Difference: A Chronicle of Wonder, Part One “I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the streets is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.” –Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Over the last week and half, I’ve been teaching Katherine Dunn’s…