Integrating the Disabled Girl, Cripping the Health Humanities The 2025 Gaines Lecture for Outstanding Research in the Humanities with Anastasia Todd

The Gaines Lecture for Outstanding Research in the Humanities recognizes advances in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, spotlighting ground-breaking work related to our annual theme. The inaugural lecture, for our Year on Health and the Humanities, will be given by Anastasia Todd and will take place at 4.00pm on Thursday February 20, 2025 in the John Jacobs Niles Gallery of UK's Fine Arts Library.

 Please register here for the event, which is free and open to the public. 

Anastasia Todd is an assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her research is at the intersection of feminist disability studies and girlhood studies. She is the author of Cripping Girlhood (University of Michigan Press, 2024), which was awarded the 2022 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities. Her work has been published in Disability Studies Quarterly, Societies, NEOS, Girlhood Studies, and Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy.