Hey there. I’m T. K. Dalton.
(Call me Tim; pronouns: he/him/his.)
I’m a full-time Lecturer in the Writing Program at Princeton University. Before coming to Princeton, I taught first-year writing in the CUNY system for more than 15 years, most recently at the City College of New York as an Adjunct Assistant Professor. I earned an MFA in Fiction at the University of Oregon, a PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a certificate in American Sign Language-English Interpreting from Union County College.
On this site, you can learn about my creative writing, my academic writing, my teaching experience, and my prior work as an American Sign Language-English interpreter. Recent and upcoming events and words are below the spacer.
“Bridging Disability Studies and Writing Assessment: Anti-Ableist Practices in Pedagogy and Scholarship
A talk delivered as part of a roundtable at the CCCC Annual Convention, Cleveland, OH, March 2026.
“’Many of us will find it’s a hard task:’ Epistolary Scaffolding in the ‘Left-Hand Penmanship’ Contest of 1865–67
An essay in the pedagogy issue of The Journal of Epistolary Studies, guest edited by Sindija Franzetti. Forthcoming.
“‘Good People Will Take Care of Me’: Capacity and Care in the Left-Hand Penmanship Contest of 1865-67”
An essay in the edited collection Disability and Care: Relational Representations, edited by D. Christopher Gabbard and Talia Schaffer.
“The Third Time I Taught Myself to Walk”
A talk delivered as part of the panel “The Body as Archive: Queer, Disabled Knowledge through Pain and Pleasure,” with Alessandra Occhiolini and Sylvia Korman, MLA Conference, January 6, 2024
“Historical Scans: The Ever-Evolving Language of Disability”
An essay published in AWP’s Writer’s Notebook, July 2022
“Paper Beats Rock: Locating Memory in the Left-Hand Penmanship Contest of 1865”
A presentation at the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “The Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath,” CUNY’s American Social History Project and Center for Media and Learning, July 21, 2023
“Virtual AWP: Writer to Writer Conversations & Readings”
A conversation with Eileen Cronin and Rachel Souza, July 2022
“Disabled Reading in Edith Wharton’s The Spark”
A panel on “Reading and Writing Neurodiversity” at the Northeast MLA Conference, March 10, 2022
“Excerpt from The Intimate Register”
A reading on the theme of “family inheritance” at the Northeast MLA Conference, March 12, 2022
Say Hey
I’m never on Twitter: @tkdalton
But Gen Xers like email? tkdalton (at) gmail (dot) com
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