Loyola Marymount University is a top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top six Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 7,100 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 56 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 46 master’s degree programs, three doctorate programs and 12 credential/authorization programs. LMU’s intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 14 Division I varsity sports.

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Amanda Apgar received her PhD in Gender Studies from University of California, Los Angeles. Her book, The Disabled Child (University of Michigan Press), examines memoirs about raising children with disabilities and demonstrates the structural underpinnings of gender, class, and race privilege in positive portrayals of disability. Apgar teaches on gender, sexuality, disability, body theory, memoir, and autism.

Amanda Apgar

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