Program Coordinator and Graduate Student Research Assistant
Elise Nagy (she/they) is a PhD candidate in the Joint Program in English & Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, and program coordinator for the Digital Accessible Futures lab. Her research interests include visual and literary self-representation, feminist pedagogy, the women’s health movement of the 20th century and ongoing critiques of normative constructions of “health,” radical community-based care and health education, and fat politics/fat subjectivities. Her dissertation project explores how undergraduate women’s health courses reproduce and resist hegemonic ideologies of health, fat embodiment, gender, race, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Elise has served as a coordinator for U of M’s English Graduate Group (EGG) and organized the Disability Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Michigan and the AW Mellon Disability Studies/Disability Activism at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
