Dr. Julia Miele Rodas teaches and writes about disability, rhetoric, and identity at Bronx Community College, Lehman College, and in CUNY Master's and Ph.D. programs. Her writing classes at Bronx Community College often focus on social justice issues like racism, mass incarceration, and the experience of oppressed and marginalized people. Dr. Rodas is co-Chair of the Columbia University Seminar in Disability, Culture & Society and a founding co-Chair of the CUNY Disability Scholars.

Her publications include work in the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, Victorian Literature & Culture, and Dickens Studies Annual, as well as in collections like Keywords for Disability Studies (NYU, 2015) and other venues. Dr. Rodas is co-editor of The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability (The Ohio State UP, 2012) and of the Literary Disability Studies book series (Palgrave Macmillan). Her monograph, Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe, is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press (Summer 2018).