Julie Passanante Elman is currently Lecturer of Television Studies/Media Theory in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin (UCD) in the Republic of Ireland. In the fall, she will be Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Gender and Sexuality Studies in New York University's Department of Social & Cultural Analysis. Her research focuses broadly on disability studies; feminist and queer theory; and 20th century media and cultural history. Elman's current book project, Troubling Teen: Disability, Sexuality, and the Rehabilitation of American Youth is a cultural history of the "developing teenager" that reveals the centrality of rehabilitation in the establishment of American norms of self-regulating citizenship, embodiment, sexuality, and emotional maturity in the late 20th century. Her work has appeared in Television & New Media and is forthcoming in The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies and the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. She currently lives in Dublin, Ireland.