Tanja Aho Professorial Lecturer Critical RGC Studies

Additional Positions at AU: Faculty Associate, Institute on Disability and Public Policy; Co-Chair, Disability+ Faculty & Staff Affinity group
Degrees: PhD in American Studies, University at Buffalo, SUNY (2018)

MA in American Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany (2010)

BA in American and British Studies & Finnish Philology, University of Greifswald, Germany (2008)
Languages Spoken: English, German, Finnish
Bio: Dr Tanja Aho is a Professorial Lecturer in American Studies, where Dr Aho teaches classes focused on disability and madness, settler colonialism and racial capitalism, and gender and sexuality. They are also one of the co-founders of the Disability+ Faculty and Staff Affinity group. Dr Aho is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Queer³: Intersections of Spectrums. Dr Aho's work on madness/disability, political economy, and popular culture has been published in several anthologies as well as in American Quarterly, Lateral, and the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. In 2015 Aho served as the interim managing editor of the Disability Studies Quarterly and from 2015-18 as the co-chair of ASA’s Critical Disability Studies Caucus. At AU Aho teaches classes in American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a special focus in disability and mad studies.

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