Elizabeth Ellcessor

Elizabeth Ellcessor is assistant professor in the department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality, a critical inquiry into the nature of emergency systesm, and Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation, the first cultural analysis of Web and digital media accessibility for people with disabilities.

With Bill Kirkpatrick, she is editor of Disability Media Studies, which posits the emergence of disability media studies as a rich, interdisciplinary field of study with far-reaching implications for how we live in, study, and teach about today’s media saturated lives.

She is a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Miller Center, Director of the UVA Disability Studies Initiative, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.