Disability Studies

Ally Day

Ally Day, Associate Professor

Phone: 419-530-7241
University Hall 4420 C
Allyson.Day@UToledo.Edu

MS 920
The University of Toledo
2801 W. Bancroft St.
Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Critical Disability Studies; Disability Life Writing; Autobiographical Studies; Feminist Disability Studies; Feminist and Mad Studies Perspectives on Mental Illness; Disability and Reproductive Justice; Women and Chronic Illness; Disability and Multiracial Feminisms; Disability and the Social Contract; Disability, New Social Movement Theory, and Coalition-Building; Interdisciplinary Perspectives on HIV; Feminist Disability Methodology; Disability and the Environment; Disability, Pregnancy, and Bioethics.

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

	2014	Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Women’s, gender and sexuality studies graduate interdisciplinary specialization: disability studies
	2009	M.A., Simmons College, Boston, MA. Gender and cultural studies
	2005	B.F.A., B.A., University of Maine at Farmington Creative writing and political science

EMPLOYMENT

	2020- present	Associate Professor, The University of Toledo
	2014 - 2020	Assistant Professor, The University of Toledo

Publications

Book manuscripts

Forthcoming Fall 2021	The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press.
In-Progress	Gestational Ableism: Disability, Pregnancy, and Radical Future

Articles

Forthcoming	“Care crisis coalition: Imagining a future of antiprophylactic citizenship through HIV hospice care” in Culture Health and Sexuality Special Issue: Viral Times. Taylor and Francis.
2018	“Zika: Grappling with Prognostic Un/Certainty and Open Normativities” in Feminist Formations Special Issue: Queer/Crip Contagions. 30.1 Pgs 164-183.
2017	"Chronic Poetics, Chronic Illness: Reading Tory Dent's HIV Poetry Through Disability Poetics and Feminist Bioethics" in The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. 11:1. 2017. Pgs. 83-98.
2014	“Resisting Disability, Claiming HIV: Introducing the Ability Contract and Conceptualizations of Liberal Citizenship” in The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 3:3. NP.
2013	“Embodied Triumph and Political Mobilization: Reading Marvelyn Brown’s The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive” in a/b: Journal of Autobiography, 28.1. Chapel Hill, NC. Pgs 112-125.
2011	“Toward a Feminist Reading of the Disability Memoir: The Critical Necessity for Intertextuality in Marya Hornbacher’s Wasted and Madness” in Disability Studies Quarterly, 31:2.Columbus, OH. NP.

Book Chapters

Forthcoming	“Disabling Birth: Prognostic Certainty and the Gestating Citizen of the Contemporary Midwifery Movement” in The Untied States: Untangling Identity in the New American Studies eds. Ricia Chansky and Laura Beard. WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
2020	“Cripping the Toxic Body: Narrative Constructions of Time and Nation in Kristen Iversen’s Cripping the Toxic Body and Sandra Steingraber’s Living Downstream” in The Temporalities of Waste: Out of Sight, Out of Time. Eds. Fiona Allon, Ruth Barcan and Karma Eddison-Cogan. UK: Routledge.
2019	“Doing Disability Autobiography as Feminist Disability Praxis” in Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies. Eds. Kate Douglas and Ashley Barnwell. UK: Routledge. Pgs 186-192.
2017	“Postfeminist Motherhood? Reading a Differential Deployment of Identity in American Women’s HIV Narrative” in Disabling Domesticity. Ed Michael Rembis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pgs 309-333.

Digital Media

On-going	Interviewer and Curator, Rust Belt HIV Oral History Project Ward M. Canaday Center, University of Toledo.
On-going	Co-Producer: Script Writer, Content Director, and Lead Researcher, HIV in the Rust Belt. Dir: Holly Hey.   Feature-length documentary film capturing the story of David’s House Compassion 1988-2003, a HIV housing and care facility in Toledo, OH. Features five long-term survivors and includes interviews with DHC volunteers, former employees, and international HIV scholars.

Book Reviews

	"Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS and the Course of Health Activism." Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2017. 289 pgs. ISBN: 978-1-5179-0001-4. and "The Course of Health Activism." Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2017. 289 pgs. ISBN: 978-1-5179-0001-4. in The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. Vol 6:4. ed. Dolmage, Jay. Fall 2017.
	"The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship." Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015, pp 181, ISBN: 978-0-8166-9403-7. in The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. Vol 5:1. ed. Dolmage, Jay.

Editorial Experience

	Disability Studies Quarterly.  Co-editor, Sept 2015 - Dec 2019.
	"Interventions in Disability Studies Pedagogy." Disability Studies Quarterly, Special Issue. Co-editor. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Spring 2015.
	Frontiers: Journal of Women’s Studies. The Ohio State University, Columbus. eds Latoree, Guisela, and Wu, Judy. Editorial assistant, May 2012 - May 2013.