Tara Fannon

is a PhD student at NUI, Galway. She received her MA in sociology at University College Dublin. Her main research interests are gender, disability and the body and self connection. Her dissertation research uses feminist disability theory to investigate narrative accounts of identity and diversity- specifically the ways that blind and visually impaired men claim, contest and adapt dominant masculinity and disability narratives to construct a sense of self. Tara teaches courses on contemporary society and sociology of health and medicine. She's the acting newsletter editor of the Disabilities Division of SSSP and she often contributes written pieces to Metro Eireann, Thesis Talk, Endangered Bodies Ireland and Endangered Bodies NYC where she served as a board member and Chief Blog Editor. She's on Tumblr @ http://tarafannon.tumblr.com/ (where she enjoys posting a photo or two).