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Reasonable People
A Memoir of Autism and Adoption
by Ralph James Savarese
The Lyric Body
Special Double Issue of the Seneca Review
Edited by Stephen Kuusisto and Ralph James Savarese
Papa, PhD
Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy
Edited by Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Martin Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese
Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity
Disabilities Studies Quarterly
Edited by Emily Thornton Savarese and Ralph James Savarese
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JAN
31
2013
Sponsored by Americanist Speakers Series, Duke University.
Neurocosmopolitanism as Biocultural Concept, not Neoliberal Platitude
Home of Professor Priscilla Wald, 7:00.
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News
“River of Words, Raft of Our Conjoined Neurologies” receives “notable essay” distinction in Best American Essays 2013.
DJ and Rob Rooy win large production grant from Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Ralph wins Humanities Writ Large Fellowship at Duke University’s Institute for Brain Science
Ralph wins NEH Summer Stipend for neuropoetics book
DJ graduates from Grinnell High School with Highest Honors
DJ Wins “Uncommon Student” Award
Upcoming Events
Feb 2014
Emory University
When All the Senses Tremble within the Flesh of Language
Feb 2014
AWP Conference
Family Trouble
Jan 2014
Modern Language Association
My Worry Now Accumulates: Sensorial and Emotional Contagion in Autistic Life Writing
Jan 2014
Modern Language Association
Reading Moby Dick with Autist Tito Mukhopadhyay
July 2013
Inclusion Institute Summer Conference
Autism, the Brain, and Poetic Creativity
June 2013
International Society for the Study of Narrative Conference
The Body’s Narrative: Classical Autism and Synesthetic Response
June 2013
International Melville Conference
’Tis Mosby’s Homily: Melville, Reconstruction, and the Enigma of Remembrance