Michael Gill | National Humanities Center

Michael Gill, 2024–25

Project Title

Fermenting Stories: Exploring Ancestry, Embodiment, and Place

Resident Associate, 2024–25

Professor of Disability Studies, Syracuse University

Michael Gill is a professor of disability studies in the School of Education at Syracuse University where he is the disability studies minor advisor. Gill is the author of the Allergic Intimacies: Food, Disability, Desire, and Risk (Fordham University Press 2023) and Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency (University of Minnesota Press 2015). His chapbook, Reflections from the Front Porch, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2022. He co-wrote, with Alexis Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, and Barbara Gurr, Furious Feminisms: Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road (University of Minnesota Press 2020). He also coedited, with Cathy Schlund-Vials, Disability, Human Rights, and the Limits of Humanitarianism (Ashgate 2014) and Creating Our Own Lives: College Students with Intellectual Disability (University of Minnesota Press 2023) with Beth Myers.

Selected Publications

  • Gill, Michael. Allergic Intimacies: Food, Disability, Desire, and Risk. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023.
  • Gill, Michael, and Beth Myers, eds. Creating Our Own Lives: College Studies with Intellectual Disability. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
  • Boylan, Alexis L., Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill, and Barbara Gurr, eds. Furious Feminisms: Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
  • Gill, Michael. Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
  • Gill, Michael, and Cathy Schlund-Vials, eds. Disability, Human Rights, and the Limits of Humanitarianism. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate 2014.
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