Elizabeth J. Donaldson
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Phone: 480-884-1616
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Mail code: 2780Campus: Poly
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Elizabeth J. Donaldson is a scholar of disability, madness, the history of psychiatry, and American literature. She has published essays on LSD-inspired disability-immersion experiences of schizophrenia, mental illness in film, antipsychiatry in Lauren Slater’s memoirs, the depiction of psychosis in comics, and physiognomy and madness in Jane Eyre. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disabilities Studies and is co-editor (with Catherine J. Prendergast) of the special issue, “Emotion and Disability” (2011). She co-edited the essay collection The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability (2012) and currently co-edits the Palgrave Macmillan book series Literary Disability Studies with David Bolt and Julia Miele Rodas. She edited Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health (2018) and is currently working on a monograph which focuses on psychiatry and American literature and co-editing a collection on neurodiversity.
Ph.D. 1997: English, SUNY at Stony Brook.
Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies 1997: Stony Brook.
M.A. 1992; B.A. 1990: English, Georgia State University.
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| IDS 316 | Integration:Humanities Context |
| IDS 316 | Integration:Humanities Context |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MLS 593 | Applied Project |
| MLS 593 | Applied Project |
| MLS 582 | Applied Project Plan |
| MLS 582 | Applied Project Plan |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 498 | Pro-Seminar |
| ENG 329 | 19th-Century British Fiction |
| LST 370 | Dimensions of Liberal Studies |
| LST 370 | Dimensions of Liberal Studies |
| ENG 303 | Classic Backgrnds: English Lit |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 204 | Topics in Contemporary Lit |
| IDS 316 | Integration:Humanities Context |
| IDS 316 | Integration:Humanities Context |