Beth A. Haller, Ph.D., has been researching mass media content about the disability community since the early 1990s. She developed some of the first university courses in the U.S. and Canada focused on disability in the media, for undergraduate and graduate Disability Studies programs at Towson University in Maryland, the City University of New York (CUNY), York University in Toronto, Canada, and the University of Texas-Arlington. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 Routledge Companion to Disability and Media (with Gerard Goggin of the University of Sydney and Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is currently co-founder/co-director of the international nonprofit organization, the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment. She is a retired Professor Emerita in the Mass Communication department at Towson University. She identifies as a neurodiverse person with multiple disabilities/chronic illnesses.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Collaborating on set to disrupt narrative prosthesis
Chapter 2: Talking the Talk of Real Disabled People's Lives
Chapter 4: Performers illustrate the Affirmative Model by taking control on
scripted series for Web and streaming
Chapter 5: Disability as superpower: Comics, graphic novels, and music
Chapter 6: "Giving everything they have:" Documentaries illuminate
disability experiences
Chapter 7: Becoming visible: People with nonvisible disabilities crafting
media content
