Saturday, November 7, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Pollack)
This panel examines the different ways disability has been performed on stage and screen, and covers a wide variety of representations of disability, from Eddie Redmayne’s performance as Stephen Hawking to the dramatization of the Anna O. case, to the puppet horses used in War Horse.
Presentations
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Christopher James Petrus (George Washington University)
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The Lives and Deaths of Puppet Horses: Disability, Precarity, and Interspecies Intimacy in War HorseHaylie Swenson
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Emily Wilson
Session chair
Meredith Guthrie (University of Pittsburgh)