Susan Antebi

Susan Antebi is a Professor of Latin American literature, whose research focuses on disability, corporeality, and eugenic legacies, especially in the contexts of contemporary and twentieth-century Mexican cultural production. She is the author of Embodied Archive: Disability in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Cultural Production (U of Michigan Press, 2021), which was awarded the 2021 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities and the 2022 LASA Mexico Section Prize for the Best Book in the Humanities. Her previous monograph is Carnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability (Palgrave-Macmillan 2009). Co-edited volumes include Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies, with Beth Jörgensen, (SUNY, 2016); and The Matter of Disability: Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect, with David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, (U of Michigan Press, 2019). Her work has been funded by two SSHRC Insight Grants and a Chancellor Jackman Faculty Research Fellowship. Her current book in progress, Magical Thinking and Disability Sensoria, explores interrelated stories and experiences of madness, medical diagnoses, and the paranormal or otherwordly.

Recent graduate seminars include: Transparency and Politics in Contemporary Mexican Literature, Disability and Latin American Cultural Production, and Latin American Icons and the Sensory Work of Objects.

Undergraduate course offerings include: Literary Landscapes of the Mexican Revolution; Latin American Performative Expression; and Disability and Embodiment in Spanish American Culture.