About
Joe is an interdisciplinary researcher working in cultural studies, queer studies, and critical disability studies. His research—which is spurred by an investment in the critical potential of doubt—focuses on questions relating to agency. For example, Joe’s doctoral project attended to various experiences of epilepsy in order to trace the fragility of agency and the enduring unpredictability that a diagnosis of epilepsy engenders. Beyond the epileptic encounter, Joe’s work turns to other realms of experience, such as grief, ecstasy, desire, fear, precarity, time, and memory. Alongside his research and writing, Joe has a background in community arts-based practices and education. Before coming to LSE, Joe taught in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne which is situated on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. He has also taught interdisciplinary units across the Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, on Gadigal land.
Research
Expertise Details:
Queer Theory; Crip Theory; Queer/Crip Temporalities; Critical Disability Studies; Episodic Disabilities; Embodiment; Affect