Publications

1996 An American Tail: Freaks, Gender, and the Incorporation of History in Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love Rachel Adams · Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body — 1998 Enabling Differences: New Work in Disability Studies Rachel Adams · Michigan Quarterly Review — 1999 ‘A Mixture of Delicious and Freak’: The Queer Fiction of Carson McCullers Rachel Adams · American Literature — 2000 Masculinity without Men” (review of Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity) Rachel Adams · GLQ — 2000 Review of Simi Linton, Claiming Disability and Ann Pointon and Chris Davies, eds., Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media Rachel Adams · Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society — 2001 Behind the Scenes!: Exploitation Film Exposed” (review of Eric Schaefer, “Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!” A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959) Rachel Adams · Minnesota Review — 2001 Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination Rachel Adams · University of Chicago Press — 2001 The Worlding of American Studies” (review essay) Rachel Adams · American Quarterly — 2002 Carnival, Community, and ‘the spectacle of whitefolks,’ in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Rachel Adams · Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture — 2002 The Awakening and Selected Stories Rachel Adams · Fine Publications — 2002 The Masculinity Studies Reader Rachel Adams · Blackwell Publishers — 2003 Ishi’s Two Bodies: Anthropology and Popular Culture Rachel Adams · Ishi in Three Centuries — 2004 Caught Looking: Spectators and the Exhibition of Human Curiosities Rachel Adams · Common-Place — 2004 Hipsters and jipitecas: Literary Countercultures on Both Sides of the Border Rachel Adams · American Literary History — 2004 Review of Manuel Luis Martinez, Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera Rachel Adams · The Americas — 2005 Bringing out the Dead: Inside the Arbus Archive Rachel Adams · American Quarterly — 2005 Going to Canada: The Politics and Poetics of Northern Exodus Rachel Adams · The Yale Journal of Criticism — 2005 Review of Anna Brickhouse, Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere Rachel Adams · Nineteenth-Century Literature — 2006 Review of Robert Aguirre, Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Literature 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 — 2007 The Northern Borderlands and Latino Canadian Diaspora Rachel Adams · Hemispheric American Studies — 2008 Review of Ramon Saldivar, The Borderlands of Culture: Americo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary Rachel Adams · The Americas — 2009 Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America Rachel Adams · University of Chicago Press — 2010 Review of Michael Chemers, Staging Stigma: A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show Rachel Adams · Modern Drama — 2011 Review of Nancy Bentley, Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920 Rachel Adams · Novel — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 —