Dennis Tyler Assistant Professor B.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles dtyler1@fordham.edu Lowenstein 924B Ext. 6248

Dennis Tyler is currently working on a book titled, Disability of Color: Figuring the Black Body in American Law, Literature, and Culture, which examines how disablement as experience and as discourse has shaped racial subjecthood for African Americans, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Areas of Interest

African American literature, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century American literature, Disability studies, Critical race theory, and Cultural studies