Kym Ragusa

Lecturer

Kym Ragusa is a writer and filmmaker. She is the author of the memoir The Skin Between Us, and her essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and in the anthologies The Milk Of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture, About Face: Women Write About What They See When They Look in the Mirror,  and Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo. Her current work centers on urban nature and climate writing, disability and neurodiversity, and maternal mental health. She currently teaches writing courses on the contemporary essay; nature and environmental issues; gender and myth; and intersectionality, neurodiversity, and disability in Women’s and Gender Studies and Comparative Media Studies/Writing. 

Subjects offered Fall 2025

  • HASS-A
    same subject as 21W.725
    Units: 3-0-9
    M/W 10-11:30am

    Explores ways contemporary writers re-imagine myth and fairy tales through lens of gender and sexuality. Examines how old stories can be retold to resonate with issues of power, violence, courage, resistance, identity, community, silence, and voice. Students complete writing project where they re-imagine a myth or fairy tale.

Subjects not offered this term

  • HASS-S
    same subject as CMS.337
    Units: 3-0-9
    M/W 11-12:30pm

    Examines key theoretical concepts, texts, and other media forms by disabled and neurodivergent writers, theorists, activists, and artists. Investigates medical and social models of disability and their interconnections with race, gender, class, sexuality, age, ethnicity, etc. Uses an intersectional lens to address emerging connections between disability and the environment, investigating issues of accessibility in natural and built environments. Explores themes of visibility/invisibility, community, vulnerability, power, access, and creativity.