Emeritus Faculty

Susan Schweik

Emeritus
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Disability Studies
Poetry
Cultural Studies
20th- and 21st-Century American
Critical Theory
19th-Century American

Susan Schweik's last book was The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. She is completing a book tentatively titled Unfixed: How the Women of Glenwood Asylum Overturned Ideas about IQ, & Why You Don't Know About Their Work. A recipient of Berkeley's Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and U.C.'s Presidential Chair in Undergraduate Education , she was involved with the development of disability studies at Berkeley for over 25 years. She was co-coordinator of the Ed Roberts Fellowships in Disability Studies post-doctoral program at Berkeley (...

Peter D. Scott

Emeritus

Hertha D. Sweet Wong

Professor of the Graduate School
19th-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century American
Native American
Cultural Studies

Hertha D. Sweet Wong is Professor of the Graduate School. She writes about and teaches autobiography, Native American literatures, ethnic American literatures, and visual studies. Her most recent book is Picturing Identity: Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Combining approaches from autobiography studies and visual studies, she argues that grappling with the breakdown of identity and representation, late 20th-century writers and artists experiment with innovative interart autobiographical forms in an...