The Critic as Neurocosmopolite; Or, What Cognitive Approaches to Literature Can Learn from Disability Studies: Lisa Zunshine in Conversation with Ralph James Savarese

Have cognitive scientists misread autism? What happens if, instead of simply accepting such research, literary critics turned to the actual prose and poetry written by autistic authors, such as Tito Mukhopadhyay and Donna Williams? Literary theory may never be the same once it comes to terms with neurodiversity

Przeploty jaźni, słów i mediów, czyli dwóch biografów z jednej rodziny rozmawia o sztuce i niepełnosprawności

Two life writers in the same family--one neurotypical, one autistic—converse about the mountain of material they’ve produced: poems, memoir, essays, scholarship, and documentary film. Preferring to conceive of their work as interdependent and enmeshed, not bound by the strictures of identity politics and thus separate or conflicting, they advance a neurocosmopolitan and rhizomatous understanding of the self in words.  David James “DJ” Savarese is an artful activist, writer, teacher, and Co-Chair of The Alliance for Citizen-Directed Supports. An OSF Human Rights Initiative Youth Fellow (2017-19) and co-producer, narrator, and star of the Peabody award-winning documentary Deej: Inclusion Shouldn’t Be a Lottery, he publishes poems, creative nonfiction, and scholarly essays. Ralph James Savarese has authored five books and co-edited three collections, including the first on neurodiversity. He has received awards from the Herman Melville Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation, which funded a neurohumanities fellowship at Duke University’s Institute for Brain Sciences. He teaches at Grinnell College.  Dwóch (auto)biografów z tej samej rodziny – jeden neurotypowy, drugi autystyczny – rozmawia o wierszach, pamiętnikach, esejach, artykułach naukowych i filmach dokumentalnych, które razem stworzyli. Woląc postrzegać swoją pracę jako współzależną i splecioną, niezależną od ograniczeń polityki tożsamości, która ludzi dzieli i konfliktuje ich ze sobą nawzajem, rozmówcy kultywują neurokosmopolityczne i kłączowe porozumienie jaźni poprzez słowa. David James (“D.J.”) Savarese to artysta-aktywista, pisarz, nauczyciel i współprzewodniczący The Alliance for Citizen-Directed Supports, stypendysta OSF Human Rights Initiative (2017–2019) oraz współproducent, narrator i bohater wyróżnionego nagrodą Peabody filmu dokumentalnego Deej: Inclusion Shouldn’t Be a Lottery. D.J. publikuje wiersze, literaturę faktu i eseje naukowe. Ralph James Savarese jest autorem pięciu książek i współredaktorem trzech zbiorów, w tym pierwszej monografii dotyczącej neuroróżnorodności. Jest laureatem nagród The Melville Society, National Endowment for the Humanities oraz Mellon Foundation, która sfinansowała stypendium neurohumanistyczne w Instytucie Nauk o Mózgu na Duke University

Neurodiversity and Caregiving: A Roundtable with Parents and Siblings of Children with Autism

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Author Biographies

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More Than a Thing to Ignore: An Interview with Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

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Joint Venture, Joint Resolution

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"The Superior Half of Speaking": An Introduction

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An Expert Discussion on Strengths-Based Approaches in Autism

Historically autism research and practice has been deficit focused. Only in recent years have we seen a shift away from deficit-based approaches toward strengths-based approaches. Current literature now includes work exploring and using strengths-based approaches in autism in a variety of clinical and research contexts. For example, clinical guidance for autism diagnostic assessments recommends using a strengths-focused approach to ensure that the strengths, skills, and interests of the individual are recognized.1 Research has explored the use of strength-based language by multidisciplinary clinicians in autism diagnostic reports,2 the use of strengths-based interventions to support young autistic adults prepare for leaving school,3 and called for new strength-based models for aging well on the autism spectrum.