Dr. Marion Quirici, Assistant Professor of English

Marion Quirici is Assistant Professor of Disability Studies and Global Anglophone Literature in the Department of English at Kennesaw State University. She completed her PhD in English with specializations in Irish Literature, Modernism, and Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo in 2016, and taught disability studies as a Lecturing Fellow at Duke University from 2016–2022. She is committed to cross-disciplinary curriculum building, access pedagogy, and disability justice in higher education.

Email: mquirici@kennesaw.edu

 
MAST Courses Taught:  

  • AMST 7200: American Social Movements: Disability Justice 
     

Select Publications:  

  • Quirici, Marion. Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing. Syracuse University Press, 2026. 
     
  • Quirici, Marion. “Writing Disability, Building Power: Writing Courses and Disability Justice in Higher Education.” In Disability, Access, and the Teaching of Writing, edited by Stephanie K. Wheeler et al., Series in Writing and Rhetoric, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2026. 
     
  • Lunsford, Christopher, and Marion Quirici. “Disability Justice and Anti-Ableism for the Pediatric Clinician.” Pediatric Clinics of North America vol. 70, no. 3, 2023, pp. 615–628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcl.2023.01.015. 
     
  • Tupetz, Anna, Marion Quirici, Mohsina Sultana, Kazi Imdadul Hoque, Kearsley Alison Stewart, and Michel Landry. “Exploring the Intersection of Critical Disability Studies, Humanities and Global Health through a Case Study of Scarf Injuries in Bangladesh.” Medical Humanities vol. 48, no. 2, 2022, pp. 169–176. DOI 10.1136/medhum-2021-012244.

  • Doebrich, Adrienne, Marion Quirici, and Christopher Lunsford. “COVID-19 and the Need for Disability Conscious Medical Education, Training, and Practice.” Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine: An Interdisciplinary Approach, vol 13, no. 3, 2020, pp. 393–404. DOI 10.3233/PRM-200763. 
     
  • Quirici, Marion. “Disability Studies.” The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory vol. 28, no. 1, Oxford UP 2020, https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbaa010. 
     
  • Quirici, Marion. “Disability Studies.” The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory vol. 27, no. 1, Oxford UP 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbz015 
     
  • Quirici, Marion. “Geniuses Without Imagination: Discourses of Autism, Ability, and Achievement.” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies vol. 9 no. 1, 2015, pp. 71–88.