Wolf, Vivian Delchamps, PhD

Vivian Delchamps Wolf (PhD, UCLA English, 2022) is an Assistant Professor of English at Dominican University of California (DUC). Her research and teaching focus upon late 19th-century American literature, feminist disability studies, race studies, performance, and writing pedagogy. Her monograph, UNDIAGNOSABLE:Women’s Disability Literature of the 19th-Century U.S., is the first book-length study of disability in 19th-century American women's literature.Peer-reviewed articles have been published or are forthcoming in J19, Journal of Gender Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, the Emily Dickinson Journal, Writing Across the Curriculum, and Literature and Medicine and in edited collections including Performing Hysteria, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities, and Disability and Care.

Wolf serves or recently served the Disability Law Journal at UCLA, the UCLA Center for Accessible Education, the Medical Humanities and Health Studies Executive Committee of the Modern Languages Association, and more.

Wolf is also a dancer and poet whose poems have appeared in the Atlanta Review, Broken Antler Magazine, Reformatting the Pain Scale, Magnets and Ladders, and Last Stanza Poetry Journal.