Tanja Aho Professorial Lecturer Critical RGC Studies
- Additional Positions at AU
- Faculty Associate, Institute on Disability and Public Policy
- 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. 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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Teaching
Spring 2021
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AMST-200 American Dreams/American Lives
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AMST-200 American Dreams/American Lives
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AMST-320 American Cultural History: Mental Health & Neuroqueerness
Summer 2021
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AMST-200 American Dreams/American Lives
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AMST-240 Poverty & Culture
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AMST-240 Poverty & Culture
Fall 2021
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AMST-200 American Dreams/American Lives
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AMST-200 American Dreams/American Lives
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AMST-285 Disability, Health & Normality