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Petra Kuppers

Petra Kuppers is a disability cultures advocate involved in many activist and artistic projects around the world. Currently, she is an associate professor at the University of Michigan and is associated with the English, Theatre, Art and Design, and Women's Studies departments. Petra is the Artistic Director for Olimpias Page text.

Publications
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Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape. Palgrave, 2011.

(editor) Somatic Engagement. Chain Links Books, 2011.

DVD producer/director: Embodied Poetics. Olimpias, 2011.

'“your darkness also/rich and beyond fear”: Community Performance, Somatic Poetics and the Vessels of Self and Other', M/C Journal, Vol. 12, No. 5 (2009) - 'disclose'. Online journal. ‘Toward a Rhizomatic Model of Disability: Poetry, Performance, and Touch’ Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 3.3 (2009), 221–240 ‘Identity Politics of Mobility: Kara Walker and Berni Searle,’ Performance Paradigm, 5: 2009, Issue Theme: After Effects: Performing the Ends of Memory. Online journal. ‘Disability/Performance. A Collaborative Essay,’ with Neil Marcus. Journal for Applied Theatre and Performance. (2009) 14: 1, 141 - 155 ‘Tiresian Journeys’ TDR: The Drama Review, 54: 2, Winter 2008:174-182.

Editor (with James Overboe): 'Deleuze and Disability.' Special Issue, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. 2009.

The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art, University of Minnesota Press, 2007 Community Performance: An Introduction (and co-editor of Community Performance: A Reader), both Routledge, 2007 Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge, Routledge, 2003.