Elizabeth J. Donaldson
is Associate Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, where she directs the Medical Humanities program. She is co-editor of
The Madwoman and the Blindman:
Jane Eyre
, Discourse, Disability
(2012).

Contributes to scholarly criticism on twentieth-century women writers

Expands literary disabilities to the subject of mental health

Highlights little-known authors and texts

1. Introduction: Breathing in Airless Spaces, Elizabeth J. Donaldson.- 2. Coming Out Mad, Coming Out Disabled, Elizabeth Brewer.- 3. Going Barefoot: Mad Affiliation, Identity Politics, and Eros, PhebeAnn M. Wolframe.- 4. "Hundreds of People Like Me": A Search for a Mad Community in
The Bell Jar,
Rose Miyatsu.- 5. Writing Madness in Indigenous Literature: A Hesitation, Erin Soros.- 6. "Is the young lady mad?": Psychiatric Disability in Louisa May Alcott's Fiction, Karen Valerius.- 7.
The Snake Pit
: Mary Jane Ward's Asylum Fiction and Mental Health Advocacy, Elizabeth J. Donaldson.
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8. Alcoholic, Mad, Disabled: Constructing Lesbian Identity in Ann Bannon's "Beebo Brinker Chronicles", Tatiana Prorokova.- 9. Seeing Words, Hearing Voices: Hannah Weiner, Dora García, and the Poetic Performance of Radical Dis/Humanism, Andrew McEwan.- 10. "My Difference Is Not My [Mental] Sickness": Ethnicity and Erasure in Joanne Greenberg's Jewish American Life Writing, Gail Berkeley Sherman.- 11. Resistance, Suffering, and Psychiatric Disability in Jerry Pinto's
Em and the Big Hoom
and Amandeep Sandhu's
Sepia Leaves,
Srikanth Mallavarapu.- 12. Mental Disability and Social Value in Michelle Cliff's
Abeng,
Drew Holladay.- 13. It Doesn't Add Up: Mental Illness in Paul Hornschemeier's
Mother Come Home,
Jessica Gross.