Amanda Apgar

Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Amanda Apgar is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Her research brings feminist theory and disability studies into conversation, with expertise in parental memoirs, care labor, and the intersections of sexism and ableism. Apgar is the faculty advisor for LMU’s Disability Studies minor, a faculty fellow with The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy, and Innovation, and has been a leader in advancing accessibility initiatives on campus.

Amanda Apgar received her PhD in Gender Studies from University of California, Los Angeles. Her book, The Disabled Child (University of Michigan Press), examines memoirs about raising children with disabilities and demonstrates the structural underpinnings of gender, class, and race privilege in positive portrayals of disability. Apgar teaches on gender, sexuality, disability, body theory, memoir, and autism.