OU - Emerging Scholars

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The OU - Emerging Scholars collection showcases exemplary undergraduate student scholarship, such as published articles, papers that have won the University Libraries’ Undergraduate Research Award, works arising from research fellowships, etc.

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    Maycomb's usual disease: A practical application to disability studies in "To Kill A Mockingbird"
    (2021) Sauer, Gillian
    This paper aims to connect literary studies and disability studies through the acknowledgement of disability in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. By analyzing Boo Radley as a character with autism, we can begin to discuss disability in high school classrooms. By using a novel typically found on high school reading lists in the United States, curriculum can be implemented to discuss disability as a facet of diversity. This analysis will focus on Boo Radley’s characterization, as well as the prevalence of disability in the fictional Maycomb. Putting a disability perspective on the novel will help to approach the idea of adding conversations of diversity to children’s literature.