Jess Waggoner

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