Clare Mullaney

Clare Mullaney is an Assistant Professor specializing in Disability Rhetorics within the Department of English at Clemson University's College of Arts and Humanities. Her work bridges disability studies, 19th- and 20th-century U.S. literature, material text studies, and editorial practices.

Her research reveals how publishing networks recover disability narratives while preserving authors' impairments and access needs. Key projects include the book A Word Made Flesh: Disability Writing and Editorship in U.S. Literature and Culture, which analyzes intersections of disability and textual materiality.

Recent publications focus on cripistemologies of memory, pandemic-era inclusive pedagogy, and feminist disability methodologies. She employs interdisciplinary approaches spanning literary analysis, book history, and critical disability theory.

Scientific awards include recognitions from:

• American Antiquarian Society
• Emily Dickinson International Society
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists
• Clemson University's Gentry Award for Teaching Excellence (2023)

As a junior member of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, she contributes to critical bibliography while maintaining teaching roles in disability theory and literature courses.