Introduction

In this installment of “Of Note,” two eminent disability studies scholars, Jan Grue and David T. Mitchell, examine and themselves perform some of the most innovative readings disability studies has made possible in the literary field. As Grue and Mitchell suggest, recent work in disability studies has taught us how to locate representations of disability not on the margins of human existence, where it has been for too long, but at its very center, informing diverse relationships among embodiment, materiality, and the social world. Both Grue and Mitchell turn their attention to three recent articles at the intersection of disability studies and literary studies: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s “How We Got to CRISPR: The Dilemma of Being Human” (Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Winter 2020), Emily Violet Maddox’s “Reading Walter Benjamin with a Disability Lens: The Storyteller and The Mummerelehn” (Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies,...