Staring how we look sobre la mirada.pdf - artecolonial

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am grateful for the support of many people and institutions that helped
bring this book to life. The Emory University Fox Center for Humanistic
Inquiry, the Emory University Research Committee, the Emory University
Manuscript Development Program, the Bogliasco Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, and research support from Howard University
provided time to think, research, and write at various stages and incarnations
of this project. Generous support from Deans Lisa Tedesco and Robert
A. Paul at Emory University made possible the compelling illustrations.
I thank the many individuals who supported the project, contributed ideas
and images, and served as colleagues-in-scholarship. Niko Pfund, publisher
at Oxford University Press, enthusiastically encouraged me about staring
from the beginning; Oxford University Press’s editorial team of Shannon
McLachlan and Brendan O’Neill, the production team of Gwen Colvin and
copyeditor Dr. Katherine Ulrich, and the anonymous readers have all been
scrupulous and professional throughout the publishing process. Marquard
Smith, editor of the Journal of Visual Culture , and Jim Phelan, editor of Narrative
, strengthened the book. Doug Auld, Kevin Connolly, Mark Gilbert,
Riva Lehrer, and Chris Rush generously contributed their marvelous art.
Theresia Degener, Harriet McBryde Johnson, Simi Linton, Cheryl Marie
Wade, and David Roche kindly provided photographs of themselves.
My gratitude goes to colleagues at Emory University: the Senior Fellows
and interim director Steve Everett during my residency at the Fox Center
for Humanistic Inquiry; my colleagues in the Department of Women’s
Studies Research Seminar; Amy Benson Brown, director of the Manuscript
Development Program; Martha Fineman, director of the Vulnerability
Studies Project and the Feminism and Legal Theory Project. Allison Hobgood,
Sarah Peterson, Melissa Anderson, and Elizabeth Simoneau were
dedicated, resourceful, and perpetually cheerful research assistants without
whom this book would not be.
Dear colleagues and friends from the Washington, D.C., Body Studies
Group, the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on
Disability, and the Society for Disability Studies, as well as the larger disability
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