Talk by Dr. Izetta Autumn Mobley on Monday October 5, 4:00-5:15 pm.

Dr. Mobley’s talk, titled “Optical Illusions & the Anatomy of Looking: Race, Disability, Slavery and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century,” examines how race, gender, disability, and visual culture interact to produce notions of sovereign bodies in the United States. Dr. Mobley holds an ACLS Emerging Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship and will be housed in the Humanities Institute. She will be conducting research during the Fall and Spring semesters and teaching two courses for American Studies in the Spring. You must register for the event, linked on the humanities institute page.