Lindsey Felt
Leonardo CripTech Incubator Co-founder and Co-director; Lecturer in Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University
Dr. Lindsey D. Felt is a lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. She received her PhD in English from Stanford University in 2015, and holds a BA from Haverford College. Before coming to Stanford, she worked as a journalist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com.
Her research interests include contemporary American literature, media culture, science fiction, science and technology studies, and disability studies. She is currently researching how disabled bodies crucially shaped conceptions of electronic communication in the post-WWII era, and her article on disability, hacking and telephone switchboards appeared in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory and Technoscience. Outside her teaching and scholarship, Lindsey has co-curated an arts exhibition "Recoding CripTech" at SOMArts in San Francisco, and serves as a disability and access consultant on several projects in the Bay Area.