2025 GAINES LECTURE FOR OUTSTANDING RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES

Join the UK Gaines Center on February 20th at 4:00PM for the inaugural Lecture for Outstanding Research in the Humanities, "Integrating the Disabled Girl, Cripping the Health Humanities," featuring Assistant Professor Anastasia Todd, in conjunction with our Year on Health and the Humanities. Register here!

Anastasia Todd is an assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her research is at the intersection of feminist disability studies and girlhood studies. She is the author of Cripping Girlhood (University of Michigan Press, 2024), which was awarded the 2022 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities. Her work has been published in Disability Studies Quarterly, Societies, NEOS, Girlhood Studies, and Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy.