Current work
Books, edited collections, articles and methods work now under way in Critical Neurodivergent Studies.
Books
Critical Neurodivergent Studies
Under contract, Vernon Press
The monograph that sets out the framework. It argues that neurotypicality is an unmarked norm built into institutional and cultural architecture, and that neurodivergence is both a structurally produced position and a generative way of knowing, with aesthetic, sensory and ethical dimensions of its own. Three parts, ten chapters.
Monster Time
In development, co-authored
A study of monsters, the freak show and the arena in children’s literature and media, and of the temporality the monstrous child keeps against endings that demand cure or a return to normal.
Littorascene: Reading the Australian Intertidal
Proposed
A monograph on the intertidal zone and the rock pool as a scene of neurodivergent attention, extending the term first elaborated in work on coastal girlhood in Australian young adult fiction.
Edited collections and special issues
Changeling Kin: Neurodivergence, Disability and the Fae Imaginary
Edited collection, Vernon Press
Essays on the changeling and the fae as figures through which neurodivergence and disability have been imagined.
Autistic-Coded: The Undiagnosed Character in Popular Culture
Edited volume, proposed
A collection on characters read as autistic without being named so, and what that coding gives to and takes from neurodivergent audiences.
Cognitive Ecologies
Guest-edited special issue, The Apollonian
A special issue on cognition, attention and environment.
Articles and methods
The Matrix of Neuronormativity
Framework article, in development
A standalone statement of the four-register model that organises CNS.
Critical Neuronormative Discourse Analysis
Methods paper, in development
A four-dimension extension of Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis with neuronormativity as its ideological object, worked through public-sector workplace adjustment policies.
Neuronormativity: a concept review
In development
A genealogy of the term and its uses, following Rodgers’ evolutionary concept analysis.
Whose Evidence Counts?
In development
An examination of neuronormativity in the methods of autism evidence synthesis.
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