Guest: Stefan Sunandan Honisch

Stefan Sunandan Honisch is currently Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Theatre
and Film, and Scholar-In-Residence at St. John’s College, at the University of British
Columbia. From 2019 to 2021, he held a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship in the
department from 2019 to 2021. His research interests span Critical Disability Studies, Critical Music Studies, and Theatre Studies. His first monograph project Vulnerable Virtuosities: Disability in Concert and Competition is under contract with University of Michigan Press. Honisch presented work from this project as a keynote speaker for Holyoke College’s 2024 symposium Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture before and after Braille.

His publications include articles Music Theory Online, Journal of Inclusive Education, Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, and Journal of Teaching Disability Studies, Theory & Event, and Journal of Popular Music Education. He has also contributed book chapters to The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body, Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque and Defining the Boundaries of Disability: Critical Perspectives (Routledge).

Show Notes

• Aristotelis Poetics 
• “Music as Public Intellectuals” by Walter Gershon
• “On Stupidity” by Cal Montgomery
• Crip Conversations: No Such Thing as a Stupid Student by Cal Montgomery
• Demanding Kinder Classrooms Daniel Heath Justice.pdf

Music: J’y suis jamais allé, composed by Yann Tiersen, edited by Harper Friedman

Podcast Editing and Transcript: Paula Gaube