A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain

The Department of Performance Studies welcomes you to a reading and discussion with Christina Crosby from her new memoir "A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain" (2016, NYU Press). 

Part of the NYU Press Sexual Cultures series. 

Christina Crosby (Professor of English, Wesleyan University) will read from her just-published memoir that is a meditation on disability, metaphor, gender, sex, and love. In October 2003, she was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, when a branch got caught in the spokes of her bicycle, instantly pitching her to the pavement: in an instant, she was paralyzed. A Body, Undone is a compelling account of living on, as Crosby rebuilds her body and fashions a life through writing, memory, and desire.

Introduction by Ann Pellegrini (Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Performance Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality). 

Sponsors: The NYU Council for the Study of Disability, Department of Performance Studies, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis