How did the portrayal of people with disabilities shift in the wake of the U.S. movement for civil rights?

David Mitchell, a visiting professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities and an associate professor in the College of Education at Temple University, will examine this question in a free public lecture entitled “The Capacities of Incapacity: Disability and Neoliberal Novels of Embodiment,” on Wednesday, November 7, at 110 a.m. in Vanier Hall’s Katzman Lounge.

Dr. Mitchell’s publications include three books: The Body and Physical Difference (1997), Narrative Prosthesis (2000), and Cultural Locations of Disability (2006); four award-winning documentary films: “Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back” (1995), “A World Without Bodies” (2002), “Self Preservation” (2005), “Disability Takes on the Arts” (2006); and the five-volume Encyclopedia of Disability (2005).