Gender and Women's Studies

Michelle Jarman is Professor of Disability Studies and adjunct faculty in Gender and Women's Studies. She is Director of the Disability Studies Minor at the Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND), and Director of the Gender and Women's Studies Program. Dr. Jarman received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago, with concentrations in disability studies and gender studies. Her broad reserach interests focus upon intersecting literary cultural representations of disability, gender, and ethnicity. She is co-editor of Barriers and Belonging: Personal Narratives of Disability, published in 2017 by Temple University Press. Jarman's essays have been published in academic journals such as Feminist Formations, Disability Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, the Journal of American Culture, as well as in lterary and disability studies anthologies.