Mara Mills

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Department of Media, Culture, and Communication 
New York University 
239 Greene Street
New York, NY 10003 
mmills@nyu.edu

A diagram with a sketch of a woman's head, an arrow pointing from her brain to a hand holding a pencil, and another arrow exiting her mouth and pointing to a sketch of an ear
Schematic Representation of the Communication Process
Elise Richter, How We Speak (Wie Wir Sprechen), Leipzig, 1912
 

NEWS

How to be Disabled in a Pandemic 
ed. Mills, Kornstein, Ginsburg, and Rapp (NYU Press, 2025)

Holding the Line: On the Art of Christine Sun Kim 
Artforum (April 2025)

Alice Wong's Overpainting and the Aesthetics of Access 
Aperture Magazine (Spring 2025)

New Book Series: Disability in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 
Johns Hopkins University Press (with Jaipreet Virdi and Wayne Tan)

Research Fellow, Charles Babbage Institute 
University of Minnesota (2024-)

Spring/Summer 2025 Itinerary

Celebrating Osiris 39: Disability and the History of Science 
New York History of Science Lecture Series (Columbia, February 12)

Listening through Hearing Aids with Thomas Edison 
Presidential Symposium, ARO 48th Annual Midwinter Meeting (Orlando, February 22)

Vent: Disability Distributive Justice and the History of Ventilator Allocation Protocols 
Dr. Saul Green Memorial Lecture (University of King's College, Halifax, March 18)

Vent: Making and Debating the New York State Ventilator Allocation Protocols 
Fordham's Annual Distinguished Lecture on Disability (Fordham Law School, March 25)

Disability Justice Symposium 
Brooklyn Law School (March 28)

LIstening for Bias 
SSRC Just Tech Panel (April 10)

Disability Studies Program Directors Panel 
4th Annual Symposium for Disability and Accessibility at Yale (April 11)

In conversation with David Serlin, Sophie Gonick, and Andrew Ross 
Window Shopping with Helen Keller (April 30)

Inaugural Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies "Applied Humanities" 
Humboldt University (Berlin, May 15-17)

Crip Authorship @ Performative Book Fair 2025 
Kampnagel (zoom May 16)

ADA at 35: Navigating Accessibility in the Hybrid Interior 
Center for Architecture (June 2)

Crip Authorship: Disability as Method for Creativity 
V&A Museum (June 21, hybrid)

Introducing Reid Davenport, Maysoon Zayid, and Emily Ladau at Life After screening 
Film Forum (July 23)

LINKS

  • "Measuring Aurality" Working Group (Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine)
  • Assistive Media Project @ Leuphana University
  • Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
  • Disabilities and Digital Media DFG Network
  • Epistemes of Modern Acoustics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
  • JHUP Book Series: Disability in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
  • Machine Listening, a curriculum
  • New York City Civil Rights History Project
  • NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology
  • NYU Center for Disability Studies
  • NYU Disabilities, Inclusion and Accessibility Provostial Working Group (DIA)
  • NYU Minor in Disability Studies
  • NYU Minor in Science and Society
  • Paramodernities Portal
  • Research Fellow, Charles Babbage Institute
  • Sounding Out!
  • The Future of Disability Studies @ Columbia
  • Thinking Head (Lara Favaretto, see "Paradigm")
  • UCHRI Critical Disability Studies Research Group
  • Variantology
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