Michelle Jarman, Ph.D.
Wyoming Institute for Disabilities
Executive Director, Professor, Disability Studies
Michelle Jarman is Professor of Disability Studies and Executive Director of the Wyoming Institute for Disabilities.
Dr. Jarman also directs the Disability Studies Program at WIND including the undergraduate minor and graduate programming. Dr. Jarman received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2006, with concentrations in disability studies and gender studies. She is an active member of the Society for Disability Studies, American Studies Association, and the Association of University Centers on Disability. Her research interests include 20th-century U.S. literature and intersecting cultural representations of disability, gender, and race. Current research focuses on community-based participatory projects, disability memoirs, and reproductive rights and disability. Dr. Jarman’s scholarship has appeared in journals such as Disability Studies Quarterly, Feminist Formations, the Journal of American Culture, and in prominent literary and disability studies anthologies.
Recent Honors and Awards
2022 University of Wyoming Representative, Academic Management Institute, Colorado and Wyoming Network of Women Leaders (CWNWL)
2021 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award, College of Health Sciences
2019 Mortar Board “Top Prof,” University of Wyoming
2019 Leadership in Social Justice Award, Shepard Symposium on Social Justice
2017 Mortar Board “Top Prof,” University of Wyoming
2014 Mortar Board “Top Prof,” University of Wyoming
2014 Bright Star Award for Excellence in Education, Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities, Wyoming
2011 Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Health Sciences, University of Wyoming
Publications
Co-edited Book
Jarman, M., Monaghan, L. and Quaggin Harkin, A., (Eds.), Barriers and Belonging: Personal Narratives of Disability. Temple University Press, 2017. PDF
Co-edited Journal
Jarman, M. and Kafer, A. (Eds) (2014). Special topic: Growing disability studies. Disability Studies Quarterly 34.2. Open access link
Selected Journal Articles
Jarman, M., Thompson-Ebanks, V., Singh, R., Boggs, C., Clement, K., and Peter, S. (2023, June). Disability studies, inclusive pedagogy, and universal design for learning: A faculty pilot experience. Disability Studies Quarterly, 42.4. Open access link
Jarman, M., Burman, M., Purtzer, M.A., Miller, K. (2022). “Those lessons learned went right out the window once I was atop the soil where it all happened”: Transformative learning in a study abroad course. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 34.4, 26-52. Open access link
Jarman, M. (2021). Horror as resistance: Reimagining blackness and madness. Special issue edited by Therí Pickens on Blackness and Disability. College Language Association Journal, 64.1, 62-81. PDF
Thompson-Ebanks, V. and Jarman, M. (2017). Undergraduate students with nonapparent disabilities identify factors that contribute to disclosure decisions. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 65.3, 286-303. Link to abstract | PDF
Jarman, M. (2015). Relations of abortion: Crip approaches to reproductive justice. Feminist Formations, 27.1, 46-66. PDF
Jarman, M. and Kafer, A. (2014). Guest editors’ introduction: Growing disability studies: Politics of access, politics of collaboration. Disability Studies Quarterly, 34.2. Open access link
Jarman, M. (2013). Entanglements of disability, ethnicity, and relations: Orienting toward belonging in George Estreich’s The Shape of the Eye. Journal of American Culture, 36.3, 194-205. PDF
Jarman, M. (2012). Cultural consumption and rejection of Precious Jones: Pushing disability into the discussion of Sapphire’s Push and Lee Daniels’s Precious. Feminist Formations, 24.2, 163-185. PDF
Jarman, M. (2012). Disability on trial: Complex realities staged for courtroom drama – the case of Jodi Picoult. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 6.2, 209-225. PDF
Selected Book Chapters
Jarman, M. (2021). Disability rights through reproductive justice: Eugenic legacies in the abortion wars. In Shuttleworth, R. and Mona, L. (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of disability and sexuality (pp. 132-143). New York: Routledge. Taylor & Francis Link | PDF
Jarman, M. and Thomson-Ebanks, V. (2020). Pedagogies of disability justice: Cognitive accessibility in college classrooms. In Ware, L. (Ed.), Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies: (Dis)Assemblages (pp. 143-155). Springer. Link to abstract | PDF
Jarman, M. (2017). Race and disability in U.S. literature. In Barker, C. and Murray, S. (Eds.), The Cambridge companion to literature and disability (pp. 155-169). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. PDF
Jarman, M. (2012). Dismembering the lynch mob: Intersecting narratives of disability, race, and sexual menace. In R. McRuer and A. Mollow (Eds.), Sex and disability (pp. 114-139). Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. PDF
Jarman, M. (2011). Coming up from underground: Uneasy dialogues at the intersections of race, mental illness and disability studies. In C. Bell (Ed.), Blackness and disability: Critical examinations, cultural interventions (pp. 9-29). Berlin: LIT Verlag and East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. PDF
Jarman, M. (2010). Narrative displacement: The symbolic burden of disability in Zora Neale Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee. In D.G. Plant (Ed.), “The inside light”: New critical essays on Zora Neale Hurston (pp. 127-137). New York: Praeger. PDF
