Interview with Lindsey D. Felt : Disability at Stanford Oral History Project
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Lindsey Felt (2015 PhD English and American Literature), a lecturer in Stanford’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric, reflects on her experiences with profound hearing loss and her academic work, which examines literature through a disability studies lens. Felt recounts growing up in the East Bay, her close relationship with her twin sister, and the experience of losing her hearing as a child due to enlarged vestibular aqueduct syndrome. She describes the process of receiving cochlear implants and the assistive technologies and accommodations she has used, including hearing aids, note-takers, TTY, and real-time captioning. She also recounts her time playing soccer in college and for the US at the Deaflympics and covering women’s soccer at ESPN The Magazine. Felt recalls how her undergraduate mentors at Haverford encouraged her to combine her interests in literature and disability and describes her dissertation research on how disability shaped the development of information theory and electronic communication. She reflects on the support she received from professors, students, and Stanford’s Office of Accessible Education and the challenges she faced as a graduate student, including departmental policies regarding American Sign Language. She describes her teaching methods and courses, such as #NoBodyIsDisposable: The Rhetoric of Disability. Felt also reflects on the language around disability, in particular the term “crip,” and describes the RecodingCripTech exhibit she co-curated at SOMArts and the CripTech Incubator project at Leonardo/ISAST. Other topics include disability advocacy; community among the hearing-impaired, including the AG Bell Convention; Stanford’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric; and parenting.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Extent | 1 text file |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
| Date created | January 6, 2021 - 2021-01-07 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Interviewee | Felt, Lindsey | |
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| Creator | Felt, Lindsey | |
| Interviewer | Marine-Street, Natalie J. | |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
| Subject | People with disabilities |
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| Subject | Education, Higher |
| Subject | Stanford University. Program in Writing and Rhetoric |
| Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
| Biographical Profile | Lindsey Dolich Felt is a lecturer at Stanford University in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, where she teaches courses on disability, technology, media, and communication. She received her PhD in English from Stanford University in 2015. Drawing on her experience with deafness and bilateral cochlear implants, Felt’s research explores how disability crucially shaped the development of information theory and electronic communication. Her research has been published in a special issue on Crip Technoscience in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. She co-curated Recoding CripTech as a 2019-2020 curatorial resident at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco, which was recognized by Art in America, KQED Arts and the Disability Visibility podcast. She is also the Disability and Impact Lead for CripTech Incubator (2021-2023) at Leonardo/ISAST, where she is responsible for program design and serves as the disability community liaison. Felt is a founding board member of the Stanford Disability Initiative, a faculty, staff and student-led group that seeks to establish a permanent disability community center and disability studies program at Stanford. |
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| Finding Aid | |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/ck511zg4107 |
| Location | SC0932 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2022
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