Tanja N. Aho is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University at Buffalo, where she is completing a dissertation on the racialized pathologization of states of intensity in anti-neoliberal discourses, ranging from radical left manifestos and neoliberal literature to pop psychology blogs and the sharing economy. Her other work on madness/disability, political economy, and television has been published in several anthologies and is forthcoming in American Quarterly, Lateral, and the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. In 2015 she served as the interim managing editor of the Disability Studies Quarterly and is currently the chair of the ASA’s Critical Disability Studies Caucus. With her fellowship project, she will pilot a writing program for refugees and recent immigrants that aims to include their perspectives in public discussions of Buffalo’s economic development.
