Publications

2025 Love, Money, Duty: Stories of Care in Our Times Rachel Adams · Columbia University Press — 2025 Public Humanities, Comics, and Disability Studies Rachel Adams · Public Humanities — 2024 Disability and the Novel Rachel Adams · The Oxford History of the Novel in English — 2024 Exemplum: Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn Rachel Adams · The Oxford History of the Novel in English — 2024 Review of Cynthia Davis, Pain and the Aesthetics of Literary Realism Rachel Adams · American Literary History — 2023 Care Rachel Adams · Keywords for Health Humanities — 2022 Modernism’s Cares Rachel Adams · The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature — 2022 Rosemarie’s Hands Rachel Adams · Feminists Reclaim Mentorship — 2022 Urgent Care: Disability, Pandemic, and the Value of a Life Rachel Adams · The Lancet — 2022 What Can A Literary Critic Do? Thoughts on a Universal Design for Criticism Rachel Adams · American Literary History — 2021 Slow Emergency: Dementia, Gender, and Care in Memoir and Fiction Rachel Adams · Gender in American Literature and Culture — 2021 Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down syndrome Rachel Adams · New York University Press — 2020 An Overstory for Our Time Rachel Adams · American Literature — 2020 Asymmetry, Justice, and Interspecies Care Rachel Adams · NLH — 2020 Contextualizing Future Health: A Parent and a Resident Discuss Down syndrome Rachel Adams · Pediatrics — 2020 We Have Laws for That: Response to Jack Halberstam Rachel Adams · New Literary History — 2019 Siblings, Disability, Genre in Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach Rachel Adams · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America — 2018 Review of Choosing Down Syndrome: Ethics and New Prenatal Testing Technologies Rachel Adams · Christianity Today — 2018 Review of Leslie Jamison, The Recovering, Porochista Khakpour, Sick, Therese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries Rachel Adams · Public Books — 2018 The physician-patient relationship in the age of precision medicine Rachel Adams · Genetics in Medicine — 2017 Choosing Disability, Visualizing Care Rachel Adams · Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal — 2017 Disability, Life Writing, and the Problem of Dependency in The Autobiography of Gaby Brimmer Rachel Adams · Journal of Medical Humanities — 2016 Review of Christina Crosby, Body Undone Rachel Adams · Public Books — 2016 Review of James Berger, The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity; Jay Dolmage, Disability Rhetoric; Ellen Samuels, Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race Rachel Adams · American Literature — 2016 Tradition Rachel Adams · Keywords for Global Modernism — 2015 Bound and Unbounded Rachel Adams · Avidly — 2015 “Introduction” and “Disability” Rachel Adams · Keywords in Disability Studies — 2015 Keywords for Disability Studies Rachel Adams · New York University Press — 2015 Privacy, Dependency, Discegenation: Toward a Sexual Culture for People with Intellectual Disabilities Rachel Adams · Disability Studies Quarterly — 2015 Review of Steven Shapiro, Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Rachel Adams · San Francisco Chronicle — 2014 A Day in the Life Rachel Adams · American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A — 2014 Disney, Autism, and Whatever Works.” Review of Ron Suskind, Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism Rachel Adams · LA Review of Books — 2014 Imagining North America Rachel Adams · The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature — 2013 A World Where We Are All Autistic (review of Sabina Berman, Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World) Rachel Adams · Public Books — 2013 Disability Studies Now Rachel Adams · American Literary History — 2013 Guillermo Verdecchia’s Northern Borderlands Rachel Adams · Latino/a Canadian Theatre: Eight Plays — 2013 Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery Rachel Adams · Yale University Press — 2013 Solomon’s Ladder: On Parenthood, Difference, and Identity.” Review of Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity Rachel Adams · LA Review of Books — 2012 Casting Light on Disability Rachel Adams · American Quarterly — 2012 Disability and the Circus Rachel Adams · The History of the Circus in America — 2012 Gender and Disability Rachel Adams · Gender: Key Concepts — 2012 Response to “Past and Present of Eugenics,” Rachel Adams · Bio/Politics — 2012 Widening Circles Rachel Adams · The Global and the Intimate — 2011 Review of Nancy Bentley, Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920 Rachel Adams · Novel — 2010 Review of Michael Chemers, Staging Stigma: A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show Rachel Adams · Modern Drama — 2009 Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America Rachel Adams · University of Chicago Press — 2008 Review of Ramon Saldivar, The Borderlands of Culture: Americo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary Rachel Adams · The Americas — 2007 Blackness Goes South: Race and mestizaje in Our America Rachel Adams · Imagining Our Americas — 2007 Detecting the Continent: Crime Fiction from the U.S and Mexico Rachel Adams · Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature — 2007 The Ends of America, The Ends of Postmodernism Rachel Adams · Twentieth-Century Literature —