Eden Rea-Hedrick

Eden Rea-Hedrick (they/them) is a PhD candidate in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies who researches intersections of queerness and disability in literature, film, and culture across the twentieth century. Their dissertation, “Cripples of Sex: Disability at the Queer Midcentury,” argues that claiming disability identity is fundamental rather than detrimental to self-fashioning in queer narratives of the 1940s-60s. Eden earned a B.A. in English from Indiana University and studied English and Comparative Literature at St Anne’s College, Oxford. They are a founding member and co-facilitator of Yale's Disability Studies Community Working Group and an organizer for the annual Disability and Accessibility at Yale Symposium. In the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, they serve as Graduate Assistant Director of the Yale College Writing Center and a McDougal Teaching Fellow. Their teaching spans courses in queer history, disability theory, modernist literature, writing studies, and beyond at Yale College, the Yale Prison Education Initiative, and Connecticut College. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in venues including Modernism/modernity, Genre, and The Polyphony.