Specialties
Books
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Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller As a young blind girl, Georgina Kleege repeatedly heard the refrain, “Why can’t you be more like Helen Keller?” Kleege’s resentment culminates in her book Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller, an ingenious examination of the life of this renowned international figure using 21st-century sensibilities. Kleege’s absorption with Keller originated as an angry respon.... |
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
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.Current Research
Recent English Courses Taught
Fall, 2013
| 175/1 | Literature and Disability |
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Spring, 2013
| 180A/1 | Autobiography: Disability Memoir |
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Fall, 2012
| 143A/1 | Short Fiction |
Creative Writing Workshops |
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| 175/1 | Literature and Disability |
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Spring, 2012
| 143N/1 | Prose Nonfiction |
Creative Writing Workshops |
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| 180A/1 | Autobiography: Disability Memoir |
Special Topics |
Fall, 2011
| 175/1 | Literature and Disability: Representations of Disability in Literature |
Special Topics |
Spring, 2011
| 143A/1 | Short Fiction |
Creative Writing Workshops |
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| 180A/1 | Autobiography: Disability Memoir |
Special Topics |