Research | Disability Studies Minor and Certificate

Below please find some of the selected works of our affiliated faculty and students.

Castrodale, A. (2026). Pathologizing the Body: Fatism, Ableism and the Moral Panic of Health. CSUSB Student Research Competition, Office of Student Research. [First place for college]

Castrodale, A. (2026). Pathologizing the Body: Fatism, ableism and the moral panic of health. Review of Disability Studies. Hawaii, Manoa, 21(1)

Howard, E. (2026). Disability Help and Meta AI Wearables in Business School. CSUSB Student Research Competition, Office of Student Research.

Jones, T. F. (2012). Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203129555

Luck, J. L.. (2023). Poetics of cognition : thinking through experimental poems. University of Iowa Press.

Luck, J. L. (2020). PROPRIO-SPECTION The Poetics of Medical Imaging. AMODERN: Disability Poetics, (10).

Luck, J. L. (2009). Sound Mind: Josephine Dickinson’s Deaf Poetics. Mosaic (Winnipeg), 42(1), 169–182.

Luck, J. L. (2023). "Prosthetic Poetics: Contemporary Poetry of Disability," chapter in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry, 2023, edited by Steven Axelrod and Craig Svonkin.

Luck, J. L. (2019). Review of Letters to Jargon: The Correspondence Between Larry Eigner & Jonathan Williams by Andrew Rippeon. Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. 13. (2019).

Luck, J. L. (2012). “Larry Eigner and the Phenomenology of Projected Verse.” Contemporary Literature53.3 (2012): 461-92. [Winner of the L.S. Dembo Prize for the best article published in the journal in 2012.]

Luck, J. L. (2013). “Lyric Underheard: The Printed Voice of Laura Redden Searing.” Special issue on “Women Writing Disability.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 30.1 (2013): 62-81.

Luck, J. L. (2010). “Disability, Poetry, Pedagogy.” Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature 4.2 (2010).

Nerren, J. B. (Ed.). (2022). Rethinking perception and centering the voices of unique individuals : reframing autism inclusion in praxis. IGI Global.

Nerren, J. B. (2021). PUBLIC RELATIONS OF INCLUSION: A CRITICAL REFRAMING OF AUTISM INCLUSION WITH PROFESSORS OF TEACHER CANDIDATES. CSUSB ScholarWorks.

Nerren, J.B, & Felten, R. E.. (2024). Decolonizing Communication of Autism Inclusion: Interrogating Inherited Ableist Practices. Journalism and Mass Communication, 14(6). https://doi.org/10.17265/2160-6579/2024.06.005

Nerren, J.B. (2025). Tapping Autistic Expertise: Inclusive peer review by autistic scholars in autism inclusion-related inquiry. Methods for the Marginalized: Reaching and Researching Vulnerable Populations. [Eds. Smith, B., and Smith, S.] Routledge. Arthur M. Page Center, Penn. State.

Nerren, J. B., Sweeney, J. C., Block, J. L., Rivas, S. P. and Felten, R. E. (2025). DisCrit and Neurodiversity: Proposed AutCrit tenets and the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of autism inclusion’s next wave. [Forthcoming]

O’Quinn, Jamie. (2026). “Accessibility beyond Accommodation: Feminist Commitments to Classroom Equity.” Feminist Studies 51(1&2): 242-249.

Rivas, S. (2024). Ableism in Higher Education: Platicas Framing faculty Perception and a Call to Action. IAFOR International Conference on Arts and the Humanities.

Rivas, S. (2026). Understanding disability in higher education: Frames of faculty perception of disabilities and a call to action. [Thesis]

Wallace, M., Carmichael, B., Hall, J., & August, S. E. (2021). Dear STEM, It’s Time for Some Identity Work. ENVISIONING DIMENSIONS OF EQUITY IN AN ACADEMIC ECOSYSTEM.

Williams, P. (2024). Race, Neurodiversity, & Advocacy: What Patients & Practitioners Must Do in a Healthcare Setting. CSUSB Student Research Competition, Office of Student Research [First place for college]

Do you have a recently published piece that you worked on that aligns with the DS minor? Please let us know! Contact: Jessica.nerren@csusb.edu

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