Rachel Adams is the director of the “Future of Disability Studies.” She is Professor of English and American Studies at Columbia University, where she specializes in 19th- and 20th-century literatures of the United States and the Americas, media studies, theories of race, gender, and sexuality, medical humanities and disability studies. She is currently writing a memoir about raising a child with Down syndrome called Aiming High Enough, which will be published by Yale University press. Her most recent book is Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America (University of Chicago Press, 2009). She is also the author of Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2001). She is co-editor (with David Savran) of The Masculinity Studies Reader (Blackwell Press, 2001) and (with Sarah Casteel) a special issue of Comparative American Literature on "Canada and the Americas." She is editor of a critical edition of Kate Chopin's The Awakening (Fine Publications, 2002). Her articles have appeared in journals such as American Literature, American Literary History, American Quarterly, Minnesota Review, Camera Obscura, GLQ, Signs, Yale Journal of Criticism and Twentieth-Century Literature. She has also written for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Gastronomica, and the Times of London. In 2011, she won the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award.

"The Future of Disability Studies" Project Director Rachel Adams in The Columbia Record