Georgina Kleege, Lecturer

Office: 463 Wheeler

Phone: 510-642-0651

Email: gkleege@berkeley.edu

Areas of Interest

Creative Writing, disability studies.

creative nonfiction; disability autobiography; blindness and visual art.

Home for the Summer, Sausalito: Post-Apollo Press, 1989.

Sight Unseen, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller, Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press 2006.

"On the Borders of the Wild" (essay)Raritan, (Vol. 18, No. 4), pp. 102-15.

"Wearing the Mask Inside Out" (essay) Social Research (Vol. 67, No. 1), pp. 47-59.

"Beauty and the Blind" (essay) The UNESCO Courier (July/August, 2001), pp. 47-8.

“Charity Begins at Home” (essay) Ragged Edge(Vol. 23, Nos. 2 & 3), pp. 20-25.

"Memory Works Both Ways" (essay) Southwest Review, (Vol. 87, Nos. 2 & 3), pp. 167-200.

“A Good Place for Aliens” (essay) The Yale Review, (Vol. 91, No. 4), pp. 99-108.

“Darwin Thinks” (essay) Southwest Review (Vol. 89, No. 4), pp. 530-547.

“Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eye-Witness Account” (essay) The Journal of Visual Culture, (Vol. 4, No. 2), pp. 179-190.

“What we Talk About When We Talk About Art” (keynote address) Beyond Occularcentrism Symposium, The Tate Modern Museum, November, 2002.

“The Subject At Hand” (keynote address) Art Beyond Sight Conference, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October, 2005.

“Brain Work: A Meditation on the Painting of Katherine Sherwood”

Golgi’s Door (National Academy of Sciences) pp. 8-18.

“blind Imagination: Pictures into Words"

Southwest Review (Vol. 93, No. 2) pp. 227-39.

TTh 11:00 am - 12:30 pm