Jess Waggoner

Jess Waggoner

Assistant Professor

Jess Waggoner

Biography

Research Interests

feminist disability studies, queer and trans studies, Black studies

Degrees and Institutions

Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington

Recent Publications

Black Crip Modern: Race, Gender, and the Roots of Disability Consciousness (Forthcoming from New York University Press)

“Problem Girls”: Gender Nonconformity as Resistance in Early Disabled Feminist Life Writing. A/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 1–31. (2025)

“We Belong to One Another: Disability and Family Making” in The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability. Oxford University Press. Co-authored with Jina B. Kim, Sami Schalk, Joseph Stramando, Leah Smith, and Mia Mingus. Ed. Liz Bowen, Joel Michael Reynolds, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Erik Parens. May 2025.

“Dykes, Disability, & Stuff: Queer Ableisms and the Work of Cripqueer Print Cultures.” Feminist Studies. 49.1 (2023).

“Race, Gender and Sanism: Remapping Feminist Genealogies of Madness.” Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture in Society. 47.4 (2022): 886-904.

“Introduction: Visionary Politics and Methods in Feminist Disability Studies.” The Journal of Feminist Scholarship. Co-authored with Dr. Ashley Mog. 17.17 (2020): 1-8.

“‘The Seriously Injured of our Civic Life’: Imagining Disabled Collectivity in Depression-era Crip Modernisms” for Modern Fiction Studies. Special Issue, “Modernist Fictions of Disability.” Ed. Maren Linett. 65.1. (2019): 89-110.

‘“My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience’: Afro-modernist Critiques of Eugenics and Medical Segregation.” Modernism/modernity 24.3 (2017): 507-525.

“‘Oh say can you __’ : Race and Mental Disability in Performances of Citizenship.” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 10.1 (2016): 87-102.

“Cripping the Bildungsroman: Reading Disabled Intercorporealities in Truman Capote’s Other Voices, Other Rooms.” Journal of Modern Literature 38.1 (2014): 56-72.

Courses Taught

GWS/ENG 737 Feminist Disability Studies, GWS/ENG 350 Gender, Health, and Waiting Rooms, GWS/ENG 350 Trans and Nonbinary Literature and Culture