About me
Dr. Eisenhauer Richardson is an Associate Professor in the Arts Administration, Education and Policy Department and an affiliated faculty member in the Disability Studies program at The Ohio State University. She received a dual-Ph.D. in Art Education and Women’s Studies from The Pennsylvania State University. Her research is in the areas of disability studies in education; gender studies; the representation of disability and particularly the constructs of mental disability in medical imagery, art, and popular culture; and disability narrative. Her artwork and creative writing explore similar themes. Dr. Richardson employs artistic and narrative methods of inquiry within her scholarship. She has published articles and given presentations in multiple international and national journals and conferences. Her recent publications include “Exhibiting mental illness: The parodies and performances of Charcot’s hysteric patients and Bobby Baker,” which explores the performances of women labeled hysteric in 19th century psychiatric photography by Jean-Martin Charcot and Hugh Diamond and contemporary performance artist Bobby Baker’s critical performative parody of this history. In “The journey of a hospital gown: Performing needlework” published in Disability Studies Quarterly, Dr. Richardson investigates her own artwork that appropriates hospital gowns as an intervention into experiences of psychiatric hospitalization.
