I am a doctoral candidate in medieval and early modern English at UCLA. My dissertation is titled Assembling the Human in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. It interrogates the ways that race and dis/ability are formed together. I keep discovering the ways that disability, white supremacy, and ability operate in relationship with each other, and do not do so neatly. Looking at affects of medieval Christian embarrassment, of early modernity’s proto-necropolitics, and of failed justice and accountability, I am seeing how white race-making necessitates a weaponization of disability and weakness to justify its death-making. The journey continues, frustrating and alone.
I have written on Bruegel’s The Cripples, and am working on chapters for an edited collection on Shakespeare and Care as well as a chapter for White Epistemologies.
I am working on a pet piece on cockroaches, because I am deeply terrified of them, despite appreciating and even adoring most insects. Any cockroach-y texts you come across would be a boon. My pet cockroach becomes larger and stronger and better nourished under our mutual efforts.
My art is primarily acrylic, oil, or watercolor on board.
Let’s talk more. fenbischoff@gmail.com
