Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is a disability justice and culture thought leader, bioethicist, teacher, and humanities scholar. Her 2016 editorial, “Becoming Disabled,” was the inauguralarticle in the ongoing weekly series in the New York Times about disability by people living with disabilities. She is a professor of English and bioethics at Emory University, where she teaches disability studies, bioethics, American literature and culture, and feminist theory. Her work develops the field of critical disability studies in the health humanities to bring forward disability access, inclusion, and identity to a broad range of institutions and communities. She is co-editor of *About Us: Essays from the New York Times about Disability by People with Disabilities and the author of Staring: How We Look* and several other books. Photo Visual description: this professional headshot shows RGT as a mature, average-sized white woman with pale skin, silver hair, black and white glasses, in a black jacket and dark pearls, posed before a white fireplace mantle decked with a black and a red vase.