After a career devoted to teaching and publishing in French history, Catherine Kudlick joined San Francisco State University in 2012 to direct the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability where she pursues the goal of convincing society that the world is better because of disabled people. Her essays about living with a vision impairment have appeared in The New York Times, and her piece “The Blind Man’s Harley: White Canes and Gender Identity” in the journal Signs was listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays (2006).
At MacDowell, she worked on her first novel, a socially-conscious thriller about blind people.
