About
Rachel Adams is a writer and Professor of English at Columbia University. Her most recent book is Love, Money, Duty: Stories of Care in Our Times, published by Columbia University Press. She is also the author of Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery (Yale University Press, 2014)—winner of the Delta Gamma Kappa Educators’ Award—Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North American (University of Chicago Press, 2011), and Sideshow USA: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2001). She is co-editor, with Benjamin Reiss and David Serlin, of Keywords for Disability Studies, published by New York University Press in 2015. She is also the author of many essays, academic articles, and book reviews. Her writing has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon, and the Times of London. She is the recipient of a Columbia Faculty Mentoring Award, the Lenfest Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.