Hello everyone! My name is Athena Cruz-Albrecht! I am a double major, English with a specialization in Literature and the Environment, and Linguistics with a specialization in Speech-Language Sciences and Disorders, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
I took INT 36KX at UCSB, which was about Disability Aesthetics and Politics in Chinese Literature and Western Music. The Shifts in Mental Disabilities in China page of this website will provide you with more information about the kinds of research and analysis I did as as the e-portfolio part of my class. Please feel free to add comments on any of my blog posts, which are found on the Home page. These blog posts include essays about Disability and Nationalist Narratives, Sex, Gender, and Disability, Ableism and Its Cultural Logic, Performing Disability, and Vulnerable Bodies and Care Ethics. If you have any questions about the information and analyses from this website, you may also contact me at athena_cruz-albrecht@ucsb.edu.
To know more about me, I love running, hiking, swimming, tennis, badminton, and pretty much anything outdoors! I enjoy knitting and crocheting very much as well. I also love animals and my family includes a beautiful, colourful guinea pig named Oktober. I love pigs, bunnies, and golden lion tamarins as well though! And of course, as an English major, I love reading and writing! My favourite books include Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, and The Stranger by Albert Camus. As a child, I also enjoyed the Inklings' works very much, including The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis and The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
