Maren Linett

CLA Profile

Professor // English
Coordinator // Critical Disability Studies // SIS
Affiliated Faculty // Jewish Studies // SIS
Affiliated Faculty // Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies // SIS

Books

• Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human, New York University Press (Crip: New Directions in Disability Studies), 2020.

Articles

• “Disability Untheorized: Critiques of Eugenics, Then and Now,” Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures 2, 2024, pp. 172-183. Special issue guest-edited by Robert Volpicelli entitled “Disability on the Cusp.” 
• “All Winged Their Supermen: Mina Loy, Olive Moore, and the Transhumanist Imagination.” ELH: English Literary History, vol. 90, no. 4, Winter 2023, pp. 1159-1186. 
• “Mind the Gap: Eugenics and Animality.” The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 17, no. 4, 2023, pp. 435-451. 
• “Making Us New: From Eugenics to Transhumanism in Modernist Culture,” Modernism/modernity, vol. 30, no. 1, January 2023, pp. 177-200. 

Public Humanities

• “Eugenics Was Wrong Even When It Got It Right,” Nursing Clio, January 17, 2023.
• “Viewing Literature as a Lab for Community Ethics.” Literary Hub, July 17, 2020.