Professor Elizabeth Bearden has been awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2022-23 academic year. The position allows for uninterrupted research among a community of scholars at one of the world’s foremost centers for intellectual inquiry. Each year, IAS welcomes more than 200 of the world’s most promising post-doctoral researchers and scholars who are selected and mentored by a permanent Faculty, each of whom are preeminent leaders in their fields. During her stay, Professor Bearden will work on her third monograph, Crip Authority: Disability and the Art of Consolation in the Renaissance (advanced contract U of Michigan P). This book continues Professor Bearden’s research on the history of disability with an emphasis on how disabled authors in the Renaissance from Petrarch to Milton discussed their lived experience of disability.