Corinne DORIA
Lecturer in History and General Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen
From 2019 to 2021, Corinne Doria taught modern history and the history of medicine at the School of Advanced Studies of the University of Tyumen (Russian Federation). From 2014 to 2018, she was lecturer at Sorbonne University and Sciences-Po Paris. In 2019, she was Research Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. In 2020, she was Scholar-in-Residence at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. She is a specialist of the history of ophthalmology and "visual impairment". She has published four books and more than twenty articles and book-chapters on the history of vision.
Recent publications:
(2021). Searching for the Normal Vision. Measuring Visual Acuity in the 19th Century. Medicina Historica, Vol. 5, N. 2, 1-11.
(2021). Le spectacle de la vision. Le discours autour de l’œil et de la vue dans la presse scientifique et populaire au XIXe siècle. Épistémocritique. https://epistemocritique.org/6-le-spectacle-de-la-vision-le-discours-autour-de-loeil-et-de-la-vue-dans-la-presse-scientifique-et-populaire-au-xixeme-siecle/
(2021). Albrecht von Graefe and the Foundation of Scientific Ophthalmology. Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 69/2, 211-212.
Georgina KLEEGE
Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, United States
"Legally blind", as she puts it, since the age of eleven, Georgina Kleege has lectured in many countries and consulted for art institutions around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Tate Modern in London.
Her collection of essays Sight Unseen (1999) is a classic in the field of Disability Studies. Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller (2006) transcends the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction to rewrite and rethink the life and legacy of the famous blind writer. Her latest book, More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art (2018), addresses the relationship between blindness and the visual arts.
Recent publications:
(2018). More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2016). Audio Description Described: Current Standards, Future Innovations, Larger Implications, Representations 135(1), 89-101.
(2014). What does dance do, and who says so? Some thoughts on blind access to dance performance. British Journal of Visual Impairment, 32(1), 7-13.
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