Beth A. Haller

Beth A. Haller, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita in the Mass Communication Department at Towson University in Maryland, where she taught journalism full-time from 1996 to 2020 and helped start its minor in Applied Adult Disability Studies (AADS). She is co-director and co-founder of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.GADIM.org), which works to promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of mass media internationally. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 Routledge Companion to Disability and Media. She is the author of Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). Haller’s new book, Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World (Taylor & Francis), will be available later in 2023.