Sonya Freeman Loftis

Sonya Freeman Loftis is the M. Mitchell Chair of English at Morehouse College. She specializes in disability studies and early modern literature, with particular attention to neurodiversity, autistic culture, and accessibility. She is the author of Shakespeare and Disability Studies (Oxford University Press, 2021), Imagining Autism (Indiana University Press, 2015), and Shakespeare's Surrogates (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), as well as the co-editor of Inclusive Shakespeares (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and Shakespeare's Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion (Routledge, 2017). Her work has appeared in Shakespeare Survey, The Disability Studies Reader, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Shakespeare Bulletin. She serves on the editorial board for Disability Studies Quarterly, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, and Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture.