Rebecca Sanchez

Rebecca Sanchez is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Fordham University, where she co-directs the disability studies program and the faculty working group on disability. Her research bridges transatlantic modernism, disability studies, and poetics, with a focus on embodied language and visual communication in American literature.

Key publications include her monograph Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature (NYU Press, 2015) and co-edited volumes like Pauline Leader's And No Birds Sing (Gallaudet University Press, 2016). She received the 2015-16 AAUW American Fellowship for her work.

Her recent scholarship, such as "Doing Disability With Others" (2017) and "Rejecting the Talkies" (2017), explores intersections between disability, modernist literary forms, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. These works align with broader trends in disability humanities and visual poetics.

• Scientific Awards:
• 2015-16 AAUW American Fellowship

Sanchez teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in modernism, modern American fiction, late modernism, and modern language politics. Her academic leadership includes co-directing Fordham's disability studies initiatives.