Senior Univeristy Lecturer

website: http://web.njit.edu/~fleische

Research Interests

Disability Studies, including such topics as History of the Disability Rights Movement, Disability-Related Legislation, Accessible Transportation, De-Institutionalization and Independent Living (Education, Housing, Employment), Universal Health Care, Disability and Technology, Physician-Assisted Suicide, Disabled Veterans, and Disability Identity and Culture; Literature and Medicine, Literature and Critical Thinking, Global Perspectives on Literature, Literature and Society; Interconnections between Science, Technology, and Society; Language Acquisition.

Courses Taught

Proposal Writing in Master’s Program in Professional and Technical Communication; Literature and Medicine; World Literature I and II; Reading and Writing in Science, Technology and Society; Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society; Humanities 099, 100, and 101.




Areas of Research

Disability Studies, including such topics as History of the Disability Rights Movement, Disability-related Legislation, Accessible Transportation, De-Institutionalization and Indepedent Living, Education, Housing, Employment, and Health Care for People with Disabilities, Disability and Technology, Physician-assisted suicide, Disabled veterans, Disability Identity and Culture, Language Acquisition, Nexus between Literature and Critical Thinking, Global Perspectives on Literature, Intersection of Literature and Society,  Analysis of Literary Works, Assessment of Literary Figures, Interconnection between Science, Technology, and Society.