Liz Ellcessor

Elizabeth Ellcessor is an Associate Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Disability Studies Initiative. As a CTE Faculty Fellow, she is helping to develop resources for disability-inclusive and accessible teaching practices and course content.

Her research focuses on questions of equity and access to media systems and content, in popular culture, digital technologies, and campus environments. She is the author of Restricted Access: Media, Disability & the Politics of Participation (NYU Press, 2016) and In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality (NYU Press, 2022) and co-editor of Disability Media Studies (NYU Press, 2017). Some of her classes at UVA include Disability & Media, Media Bodies, Digital Media Accessibility, and several small, cohort-based graduate courses focused on project development and writing.

Elizabeth earned her PhD in Communication Arts, specializing in media and cultural studies, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds a BSFS from Georgetown University, with a focus on culture and politics.