This course proposes a series of encounters between models derived from Latin American literary and cultural studies, and from Disability Studies. We will consider the ways in which these models change and mutually illuminate one another through their possible points of contact. Discussion will focus not only on the long history of representations of disability and corporeal difference in Latin America, with emphasis on Mexico, but in addition on the processes of interaction between bodies and the production and circulation of discourse and cultural objects. The course includes contemporary and twentieth century Latin American narrative and cultural production, along with theoretical texts. Topics may include the history of the medicalized body, eugenics, Otherness and the tropology of monstrosity, disability aesthetics, and disability as critical methodology.