Maren Linett

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Maren Linett is professor of English and the founding director of the Critical Disability Studies program at Purdue University. She is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers and the author of three monographs: Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness (2007), Bodies of Modernism: Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature (2017), and Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human (2020). Her current project is entitled Making Us New: From Eugenics to Transhumanism in Modernist Culture.

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Eugenics Was Wrong Even When It Got It Right

By Maren Linett • January 17, 2023

Ann Leary’s 2022 novel The Foundling follows a young white woman, Mary Engle, who in the 1930s lands a job as secretary to Dr. Agnes Vogel. The fictional Dr. Vogel is the founder and director of the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age, an institution based on many real-life institutions, including one… Read more →