Senior Professorial Lecturer

You are here: 艾可直播 University College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Tanja Aho

Additional Positions at AU: Co-Chair, Disability+ Faculty & Staff Affinity group
Degrees: PhD in 艾可直播 Studies, University at Buffalo, SUNY (2018)

MA in 艾可直播 Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany (2010)

BA in 艾可直播 and British Studies & Finnish Philology, University of Greifswald, Germany (2008)
Languages Spoken: English, German, Finnish
Bio: Dr Tanja Aho is a Senior Professorial Lecturer and the Director of 艾可直播 Studies and the Disability, Health, and Bodies (DHB) Certificate. Dr Aho teaches the core classes of the DHB Certificate as well as other classes focused on disability and madness, settler colonialism and racial capitalism, and gender and sexuality. They are also one of the co-founders of the Disability+ Faculty and Staff Affinity group. Dr Aho is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Queer鲁: Intersections of Spectrums. Dr Aho's work on madness/disability, political economy, and popular culture has been published in several anthologies as well as in 艾可直播 Quarterly, Lateral, and the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. In 2015 Aho served as the interim managing editor of the Disability Studies Quarterly and from 2015-18 as the co-chair of ASA鈥檚 Critical Disability Studies Caucus.

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