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Amanda Booher

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Assistant Professor

Office: 484
Email: amanda.booher@ttu.edu

Articles
Presentations
Service
 
 

Articles

  • “Defining Pistorius.” Disability Studies Quarterly, special issue “Disability and Rhetoric.” 31.3 (2011).
    http://www.dsq-sds.org/article/view/1673/0.
  • “Docile Bodies, Supercrips, and the Play of Prosthetics.”  Special issue “From the Margins to the Center: Feminist Disability Studies and/in Feminist Bioethics” of the International Journal of Feminist Applied Bioethics 3.2 (2010): 63-89
  • "History of Spinal Fusion Surgery," with Robert Biscup and Vinod Podichetty. Spinal Arthroplasty: The Preservation of Motion. Eds. AR Vaccaro, S Papadopoulos, VC Traynelis, RW Haid, and RC Sasso. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier, 2007. 21-35.

 

Presentations

  • Booher, A. (Presenter & Author), Conference on College Composition and Communication: All Our Relations: Contested Space, Contested Knowledge, National Council of Teachers of English, Atlanta, GA, "An Eye for a Leg: (Dis)ability, Prosthetics, and Olympics," National, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (April 8, 2011).
  • Booher, A. (Presenter & Author), Difficult Dialogues II, National Women's Studies Organization, Denver, Colorado, "Reconstructing Prosthetized Women, Reinvigorating Docile Bodies," Peer Reviewed/Refereed.  (November 13, 2010).
  • Booher, A. (Presenter & Author), Computers and Writing 2010: Virtual Worlds (May 2010), Computers and Writing; Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, "“In My Language”: Recomposing (dis)Ability through Composition," National, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (May 21, 2010).

 

Service

  • Committee Member, Technical Communication Committee. (August 2009 - Present).