Laura Mauldin
Associate Professor
Director of the Graduate Certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Department of Social and Critical Inquiry
Biography
I am an interdisciplinary scholar and creative nonfiction writer. I write and make work across a variety of genres from traditional academic writing to memoir, reportage, and cultural criticism. My most recent book, In Sickness and In Health: Love Stories From the Frontlines of America’s Caregiving Crisis, was published by Ecco/HarperCollins on Feb 10, 2026. I am also the creator of Disability at Home, which documents the creativity and ingenuity of disabled people and their caregivers as they seek to make home accessible. Substantively, I teach interdisciplinary classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels on a range of subjects from feminist and critical epistemologies and methodologies to critical engagements with science, technology and medicine to disability studies. I particularly love mentoring students as they become writers and scholars, so I also teach writing seminars that focus on producing both creative and scholarly work.
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, City University of New York – Graduate Center
M.A., Deaf studies, Gallaudet University
B.A., Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
M.A., Deaf studies, Gallaudet University
B.A., Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
| laura.mauldin@uconn.edu | |
| Campus | Storrs/Stamford |
| Link | Personal Website |
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