G. Thomas Couser is Professor of English and Director of Disability Studies at Hofstra University. His previous books include, Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (Cornell, 2004); Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (Wisconsin, 1997); Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography (Oxford, 1989); and American Autobiography: The Prophetic Mode (Massachusetts, 1979).
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