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Harvard University
English Literature and American Studies

Junior Fellow (VW-Mellon Fellow)
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Curriculum Vitae<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Todd Carmody is a literary and cultural historian with research interests in American studies, affect studies, disability and media history, critical race studies, and historicist method. As a Volkswagen Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, he will complete a book tentatively titled Racial Handicap: Uplift and Rehabilitation in Postbellum America<\/em>. Carmody\u2019s research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Social Science Research Council, the American Philosophical Society, and the Center for American Literary Study, among others. After completing his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, Carmody held postdoctoral appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, and at Harvard University. At Harvard, he is presently a research associate of the Mahindra Humanities Center and a non-residential fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • \u201cIn Spite of Handicaps: The Disability History of Racial Uplift.\u201d American Literary History<\/em> 27:1 (Spring 2015), 56-78.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cMissing Paul Robeson in East Berlin: The Spirituals and the Empty Archive.\u201d Cultural Critique <\/em>88 (Fall 2014), 1-27.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cRehabilitating Analogy.\u201d J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists<\/em>, 1:2 (Fall 2013), 431-439.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cTry Anything.\u201d Co-authored with Heather Love. Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts <\/em>50.1 (Winter 2008): 133-146.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\t
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    Racial Handicap: Uplift and Rehabilitation in Postbellum America<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    This study explores how the rise of rehabilitation \u2013 a Progressive movement to integrate people with disabilities into the industrial economy \u2013 shaped the contested project of imagining racial progress after Reconstruction, both domestically and on the imperial periphery. The book shows how uplift and rehabilitation were united not only by a shared belief in the redemptive power of labor, but also by intertwining efforts in the fields of law, literature, physiology, policy, and scientific management to represent the nature and value of work as such.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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