Which theoretical and methodological approaches of contemporary cultural criticism resonate within the field of disability studies? What can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more fully into its toolbox for critical analysis? Culture - Theory - Disability features contributions by leading international cultural disability studies scholars which are complemented with a diverse range of responses from across the humanities spectrum. This essential volume encourages the problematization of disability in connection with critical theories of literary and cultural representation, aesthetics, politics, science and technology, sociology, and philosophy. It includes essays by Lennard J. Davis, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Dan Goodley, Robert McRuer and Margrit Shildrick.

Anne Waldschmidt is professor of Disability Studies, Sociology and Politics of Rehabilitation at the University of Cologne, Germany. Hanjo Berressem, born in 1956, teaches American literature and culture at Universität zu Köln. He has published books on Thomas Pynchon, Witold Gombrowicz, Gilles Deleuze, Fèlix Guattari, and on the notion of intrinsic value, as well as over 100 articles in the fields of American fiction, literary studies, media studies, the interfaces of art and science, as well as the relation between literature and ecology. Moritz Ingwersen is working on a joint PhD at the Cultural Studies Department at Trent University in Ontario and the Department of English at the University of Cologne, Germany.