Critical Neurodiversity Studies

Jenny Bergenmar is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Louise Creechan is a Wellcome Early Career Fellow at Durham University, UK.Anna Stenning is an Honorary Fellow at Durham University, UK

• AcknowledgementsForewordIntroduction: Jenny Bergenmar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Louise Creechan, Durham University, UK, and Anna Stenning, University of Leeds, UK : Critical neurodiversity studies: The contribution of literary and cultural studies Section 1 FrameworksChapter 1: Leni Van Goidsenhoven, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands: Reading porously: How Landschip’s oeuvre invites us to read beyond what we think we know Chapter 2: Sarinah O’Donoghue, University of Aberdeen, UK: ‘Read between the signs’: Autism, sensory experience, and narrative InventionChapter 3: Arya Thampuran, Durham University, UK: Re-embodying difference: Race, space, and neurodiverse realities Chapter 4: Abs Ashley, University of Bristol, UK: Neuroqueer (a)socialities: Mapping out neurotrans textualities through literary ephemera Section 2 ReadingsChapter 5: Louise Creechan, Durham University, UK: The Lifted Veil: Neurodivergence, narrative, and scholarshipChapter 6: Laura Seymour, University of Oxford, UK: “All discourses but my own afflict me”: Morose’s house as a seventeenth-century autistic utopia (Epicoene, 1609) Chapter 7: Liselotte van der Gucht, Ghent University, Belgium: ‘Words that smack and tremble’: Narrating neurodivergence in Ingeborg Bachmann’s The Book of Franza Chapter 8: Chiara Montalti, University of Bologna, Italy: Neurodivergent futures: Community, vulnerability, and social change in Octavia E. Butler's Earthseed series Chapter 9: Jenny Bergenmar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden: Humorous failures. Neurodivergence in scandinavian young adult literature Chapter 10: Alice Hagopian, Queen’s University Belfast, UK: Albert Camus’ L’Étranger. Reparative neurodivergent reading as provocationSection 3 WritingsChapter 11: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Södertörn University, Sweden and Anna Nygren, Gothenburg University, Sweden: An autistic writerness: Exploring autistic reader/writer agency Chapter 12: James McGrath, Leeds Beckett University, UK: AutisTime: Imagined friends and borrowed clocks Chapter 13: Sophie Sexon, University of Glasgow, UK, and Hope Doherty-Harrison, University of Edinburgh, UK: Wounded attachments: How two neurodivergent scholars connected with medieval literature and each other

A vital and exciting step forward for both the emerging field of neurodiversity studies and the field of literary criticism. This volume invites us to new modes of engagement with literature, and is sure to generate many a rich classroom conversation.