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  • Reasonable People
    A Memoir of Autism and Adoption
    by Ralph James Savarese
  • The Lyric Body
    Special Double Issue of the Seneca Review
    Edited by Stephen Kuusisto and Ralph James Savarese
  • Papa, PhD
    Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy
    Edited by Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Martin Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese
  • Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity
    Disabilities Studies Quarterly
    Edited by Emily Thornton Savarese and Ralph James Savarese

DJ graduates from Grinnell High School with Highest Honors

JUN
22
2011
Event: Melville & Rome Conference, Rome, Italy

Ralph: “Casper Hauser, Peter the Wild Boy, and the Fantasy of Singular Innocence in Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man”

Through the 26th.

JUL
20
2011
Event: Institute on Communication and Inclusion Conference, MIT

DJ and Ralph: “Smart Self’s Walk Down Freedom’s Trail: Autism and Artful Advocacy”

AUG
9
2011
Event: Autism Summer Institute, University of New Hampshire

DJ: Keynote Address: “Playing with Your Hearts and Minds: Drama as Advocacy”

OCT
19
2011
Event: Autism Spectrum Network, Decorah, IA

Ralph: “Thinking Differently About Cognitive Difference”

JAN
5
2012
Event: Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA

Ralph: “’A Mountain of Sensitivities’: Autism, Empathy and the ‘More Than Human’”

JAN
26
2012
Event: Central College, Pella, IA

Ralph: Reading

DJ Wins “Uncommon Student” Award

On Saturday, October 9, 2010, DJ was selected by the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library as one of three winners of the statewide “Uncommon Student” award for his community service project “Plotting Hope: Giving Voice to Non-speaking People.” He received $1000 in cash and a $5000 scholarship for college.

You can read more about the ceremony and the students honored in an article by the Des Moines Register’s Kyle Munson.