Ittai Orr

Assistant Professor
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ittaiorr@umich.edu

Education/Degree:

Ph.D. Yale University, 2020
M.A. Yale University, 2017
B.A. Columbia University, 2012

About

Ittai Orr specializes in the literature of the Americas to 1864 and Disability Studies. He is currently at work on a book project tentatively titled American Intelligences: Varieties of Mind Before IQ, which investigates various models of intellectual ability and disability that were eclipsed by the invention of IQ and intelligence testing at the end of the 19th Century. He has written for Public Books, ASAP/J, Synapsis, The Washington Post, Early American Literature, American Literary History, and American Quarterly and serves as a managing editor of the online public humanities journal Insurrect!: Radical Thinking in Early American Studies. He teaches courses on disability and neurodiversity in anglophone literature and culture, Early American Literature including Early Native American writing, Atlantic print culture, the Health Humanities, Queer and Crip Theory, and histories of race, gender, and sexuality.

Current Courses

ARCH 609-001
Topics in Disability Studies

EDUC 580-001
Topics in Disability Studies

ENGLISH 313-006
Topics in Literary Studies

ENGLISH 580-001
Topics in Disability Studies

KINESLGY 505-001
Topics in Disability Studies

PMR 580-001
Topics in Disability Studies

SOC 580-001
Topics in Disability Studies

SW 572-001
Topics in Disability Studies

WGS 343-003
Special Topics in Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the U.S.

WGS 590-001
Topics in Disability Studies

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