studies what it is like to live in the body of another person. She looks specifically at bodies that may make others uncomfortable, like those of people with memory loss or people who have bulimia. She transforms first-person interviews into performance pieces that explore perspectives on embodiment.
Scott-Pollock鈥檚 interest in understanding what it is like to live in another person鈥檚 body stems from the many incorrect assumptions other people have made about her own body throughout her life. Scott-Pollock has cerebral palsy, which gives her an atypical gait. She remembers people wrongly assuming that her condition was degenerative or that she would end up in a wheelchair.
Host Frank Stasio talks to Scott-Pollock about her work in performance ethnography and how her experience as a disabled woman* informs her research. She is an associate professor in and the director of .
*Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock rejects person-first language. She wants to use 鈥渄isabled鈥� as any other adjective to help remove the stigma commonly associated with disability that leads to people feeling that it must be treated differently than other identity markers.
