Rachel Nebraska Lynch

Rachael Nebraska Lynch is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at George Washington University. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Secondary Education from Saint Michael’s College and taught at public high school for two years before pursuing a Master of Arts in English from George Washington University. She explores whiteness, disability, and class in British literature with occasional forays into Weimar cinema and the Nazi regime. Her current research project focuses on the relationship between nineteenth-century racial Anglo-Saxonism, whiteness, and eugenics using Black sexuality studies and crip/queer theory. She has published an essay on disability and race in Get Out in a special issue of Papeles del CEIC: International Journal on Collective Identity Research focused on crip identity politics, a book review in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and a conference review in Volupté. She has presented her research at the Modern Language Association Convention, the Mezipatra Film Festival, and the British Women’s Writers Conference. She is the current assistant editor of Disability Studies Quarterly.