Joshua Kupetz

Joshua Kupetz holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University School of the Arts. Currently, he is the Assistant Director of the English Department Writing Program at the University of Michigan where he researches, teaches, and writes on the intersections of 20th century U.S. literature and disability. His academic work has been published in The Matter of Disability (U of Michigan, 2019), the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies as well as included in The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists. A co-edited collection of essays, Sex, Identity and Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies, is forthcoming from U of Michigan P (October 2021). Also a Beat scholar, he has written an introduction for Jack Kerouac’s On the Road: The Original Scroll (2007).