Dr. Jessica L. Williams is a body studies scholar whose work focuses on how marginalized bodies are presented, marked, read, and revised in text and popular culture. In Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show (Palgrave 2017), she examines cultural representations of disability, arguing that contemporary media have co-opted freak show bodies to reinforce harmful narratives about normalcy. Her recent work has explored gender and disability in Texas Chain Saw Massacre, enfreakment in Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love, and monstrosity’s influence on subcultural alternative music scenes.