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Julia Miele Rodas is Professor of English at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. She earned her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in English from the CUNY Graduate Center and holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College.

A disability studies scholar and Victorianist, Julia is the author of Autistic Disturbances (University of Michigan Press, 2018), an academic book that theorizes the role of autistic rhetoric and aesthetic in literature. She is also co-editor of a collection on disability in Jane Eyre, The Madwoman and the Blindman (The Ohio State University Press, 2012) and co-editor of the Literary Disability Studies book series for Palgrave Macmillan. Her writing has appeared in numerous books and journals, including V ...more

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	The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability by David Bolt (Editor), Julia Miele Rodas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elizabeth J. Donaldson (Editor) 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

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