Ittai Orr

Ittai Orr specializes in American literature and history before 1864, Disability Studies, pre-1900 Native American literature, and the intellectual history of ideas surrounding race, sexuality, gender and class. His book project, "American Intelligences: Varieties of Mind Before IQ," investigates the many notions of mental ability and disability that were eclipsed by the invention of IQ and intelligence testing at the end of the Nineteenth Century. He has published in a variety of publications including American Quarterly, Public Books, and The Washington Post and is a founding editor of the new online journal Insurrect!: Radical Thinking in Early American Studies.