Education
McRuer received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Illinois in 1995.
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Robert McRuer
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He is currently professor of English at The George Washington University in Washington, District of Columbia. His books include The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities and McRuer has also edited Sex and Disability, with Anna Mollow, and Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies, with Abby L. Wilkerson. McRuer’s work focuses on queer and crip cultural studies and critical theory. His first book centered on contemporary LGBT writers, particularly LGBT writers of color, and his most recent book attends to cultural sites where critical queerness and disability contest heteronormativity and compulsory able-bodiedness.
Politics
He is completing a book tentatively titled Crip Time: Essays on Disability, Sexuality, and Neoliberalism, considering locations of disability within contemporary political economies and the roles that disabled movements and representations play in countering hegemonic forms of globalization. ().
“We Were Never Identified: Feminism, Queer Theory, and a Disabled World”. “Disability Nationalism in Crip Times”.
