Carla Mazzio

Carla Mazzio is an American literary and cultural critic. She specializes in early modern literature in relationship to the history of science, medicine, disability and health; the history of language, media technologies, and the printed book, and the history of speech pathologies with a focus on the harmful social construction of the “inarticulate” person or community. Her research has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Biography Carla Mazzio earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. in English from Harvard University. She has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the University of Chicago, the Bread Loaf School of English, and the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York, and currently teaches in the Department of English and co-directs the Medical and Health Humanities minor at the University of California, Riverside, where she co-founded and co-directs the UCR Health Humanities and Disability Justice Lab.