Alyson Patsavas

Alyson Patsavas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Her scholarship is situated at the intersections of disability studies, queer theory, and feminist theory and focuses on cultural discourses of pain, chronic illness, trauma, and disability. Her book, Pain in Relation: On Cripistemology, Chronicity, and Crip Evidence, won the 2023 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities and is forthcoming from The University of Michigan Press. Patsavas is a writer and producer on the documentary film Code of the Freaks (2020). She co-edited “Crip Pandemic Life: A Tapestry” a 24-piece collection of essays, creative work, and praxis projects found across two special-sections of Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. Her work has also appeared in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, Crip Magazine, Feminist Wire, and the Czech Sociological Review.