Mary Mason

Areas of Expertise

Literature; Disability Studies; Women’s Autobiography; Personal Narrative

Email: mgmason@brandeis.edu

Current Project

Mary Mason’s memoir and her book on disabled women’s work lives helped to focus her interest on issues of other disabled women and the disability movement. Her present project is about the way disabled mothers have changed the discourse on motherhood and how they can help us reexamine the concept of “taking care” in mothering.

Biography

Mary Mason, Professor of English, Emerita, Emmanuel College, was Director of Women’s Studies for ten years. Her doctoral work was in nineteenth century English literature but her major interest has been on the theory and practice of women’s life narratives and more recently, in Disability Studies. She has been a Bunting Fellow, a Mellon Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at Wellesley’s Center for Research on Women. She was an artist in residence at Virginia Center for the Arts and Cummington Community of the Arts.

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University

M.A., University of Chicago

B.A., Radcliffe College

Representative Publications

Mason, Mary Grimley.  Working Against Odds: Stories of Disabled Women’s Work Lives.  Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004.

Mason, Mary Grimley.  Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery.  New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2000.

Links

Mary's Blog

Chartbook on Women and Disability