Michael Bérubé

Michael Bérubé is an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University and the author of The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read (NYU Press, 2016).

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Review: Michael Bérubéon autism aesthetics
  • Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe by Julia Miele Rodas University of Michigan Press
    248pp
    Published March, 2018
    ISBN 9780472073948
  • Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Melanie Yergeau Duke University Press
    312pp
    Published May, 2018
    ISBN 9780822370208
  • See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor by Ralph James Savarese Duke University Press
    296pp
    Published October, 2018
    ISBN 9781478001300

Autism Aesthetics

To imagine an autistic rhetoric or an autistic literature is to struggle, audaciously, against a legacy of neurotypical people failing to imagine autism as anything other than lack.
Oct. 2019 • •