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Chivers Sally
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Trent University
I teach about illness, disability, and aging in literature, film, and popular culture. My research always concerns the cultural politics of disability and aging, with a current focus on interdisciplinary approaches to expanding the reach and significance of the age-friendly movement with the goal of achieving age equity for all.
Key words: disability, cultural gerontology, literature, film, care, ethnography
Curriculum Vitae
Sally Chivers is Director of the Trent Centre for Aging & Society, and a Full Professor of English and Gender & Women’s Studies at Trent University. She is the author of The Silvering Screen: Old Age and Disability in Cinema(2011) and From Old Woman to Older Women: Contemporary Culture and Women’s Narratives(2003), and the co-editor of Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability and Long-Term Residential Care(2017) (available open access here: Care Home Stories) and The Problem Body: Projecting Disability and Film(2010). Committed to cross- and interdisciplinary collaboration, she has written with scholars in the fields of architectural history, social work, gerontology, family studies, economics, nursing, and performance. Her ongoing research focuses on the gerontological humanities, care systems, and media studies of age, gender and disability based on the belief that there are new and better stories to tell about aging, disability and care that celebrate and interrogate the possibilities that come with an aging population.Professor Chivers is Associate Director of a large collaborative research project “Imagining Age-Friendly “Communities within Communities.”: International Promising Practices” that will travel to 12 cities to investigate how culture and gender matter in creating age-friendly cities.
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