Programme D « Le sujet comme objet », Thème 2 « Nouvelles frontières du récit de soi »
‟A Meeting with Thomas Couser: Quality-of-life Writing: Illness, Disability, and Contemporary American Memoir”
Discutant.es : Claire Sorin et Sophie Vallas (Amu, LERMA)
Thomas Couser est l’un des plus célèbres fondateurs et spécialistes des Disability Studies aux États-Unis.
G. Thomas Couser is retired from Hofstra University, where he taught English and founded Disability Studies Program. His books include Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (Cornell, 2004), Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing (Michigan 2009), and Memoir: An Introduction (Oxford 2012). His most recent book is Letter to My Father: A Memoir (Hamilton Books, 2017).