Rachel Adams

@RachelAdams212

Professor of English and American Studies at Columbia University; author of Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery.

New York

Joined November 2012

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Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · Mar 16

I got to be on The Banned Book Club with Ali Velshi today! msnbc.com/ali-velshi/wat…

RachelAdams212's tweet card. Set in upper-class, patriarchal Louisiana society, ‘The Awakening’ by Kate Chopin is one of the first works of feminist literature in American history. So many of the themes, sentiments, and strugg...

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Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · Jul 19

Got my website all fixed up: racheladams.net

RachelAdams212's tweet card. Rachel Adams — I write about literary and visual culture, care, disability justice, family, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. Love, Money, DutyStories of Care in Our Times Columbia University...

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Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · Jun 19

Thank you, John baldoni, for this opportunity to talk about my book: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-hPc7X…

Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · May 21

A Book About the Complexities of Care and Caregivers | Columbia News news.columbia.edu/news/book-abou…

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Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · May 8

Victoria Rosner had these beautiful cookies made to celebrate my book. I can’t think of a lovelier expression of care; I am grateful…

RachelAdams212's tweet image. Victoria Rosner had these beautiful cookies made to celebrate my book. I can’t think of a lovelier expression of care; I am grateful…

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Philip Leventhal@PhilipLeventhal · Mar 20

Hot off the press! Congratulations to Rachel Adams on the arrival of her new book, LOVE, MONEY, DUTY: STORIES OF CARE IN OUR TIMES. Thanks to Alondra Nelson, Sara Hendren, and Rita Charon for their blurbs. shorturl.at/Xe8Ed @RachelAdams212 @columbiaup

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Philip Leventhal@PhilipLeventhal · Mar 20

On Saturday, April 5 at 1, join Rachel Adams as she discusses the radical possibilities of care and her amazing new book, LOVE, MONEY, DUTY: STORIES OF CARE IN OUR TIMES w/ Olivia Ann Breibart at the @WallachArt in NYC. rb.gy/vazz6x @RachelAdams212 @columbiaup

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Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · Apr 5

She has arrived!

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Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · Nov 21, 2020

Thrilled to announce Alison Piepmeier's last book, Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down syndrome will be released from NYU Press Feb. 23, 2021. It was an honor to finish and edit this book with George Estreich after Alison's tragic death in 2016.

Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · Apr 5, 2020

Same on shake shack at 116 and broadway. No #SocialDistancing

Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · Apr 4, 2020

friend in ICU in NYC desperately in need of medical goggles. Amazon will only sell 5 at a time, and will not arrive until late April. Suggestions about how to get more sooner?

Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · Feb 18, 2020

Back to school! gs.columbia.edu/news/columbia-…

RachelAdams212's tweet card. Rachel Adams has enjoyed a successful academic career as an author and educator. This semester, she returns to the classroom not only as a professor, but as a nontraditional student at GS, where she...

Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · Nov 30, 2019

Extra credit project for gen chem: crochet atomic orbitals

Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · May 29, 2019

What happened to the mothers of our gene edited babies? theconversation.com/gene-edited-ba…

RachelAdams212's tweet card. News of the gene-edited babies excludes images of the children’s mother. Cutting her out of the picture underscores the idea that the mother is obsolete and babies can be created in the lab.

Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · Nov 6, 2018

I got to have a conversation with the wonderful Laura Hercher about genetic counseling, parenting, and disability:

TThe Beagle Has Landed@beaglelanded · Nov 6, 2018

A stunningly beautiful and direct podcast interview between @RachelAdams212, the mother of a child w/ Down syndrome, and a genetic counselor, our own @laurahercher. You won't want to miss this one . . . beaglelanded.com/podcasts/rache… #GCchat

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Nicholas Dames@n_j_dames · Sep 5, 2018

Up on @publicbooks, @RachelAdams212's sympathetic yet skeptical account of three difficult, frustrating, rewarding illness memoirs @CounterpointLLC @HarperPerennial @littlebrown publicbooks.org/who-is-sick-an…

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Public Books@PublicBooks · Sep 5, 2018

"As an Indian woman," says @TereseMarieM @CounterpointLLC, "I resist the urge to bleed out on a page, to impart the story of my drunken father ... I hide my empties because I don’t want to be a drunk Indian. I do get drunk, and I am Indian, but not both." buff.ly/2wN1UKC

Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · May 11, 2018

Biology kicked me in the ass and I got back up: “Book + Worm: Blown Away” medium.com/@racheladams21…

RachelAdams212's tweet card. Let this be known as the year Intro. Biology kicked me in the ass.

Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · Apr 7, 2018

can we have genetic knowledge without genetic determinism? on genes, equality and justice: medium.com/@racheladams21…

RachelAdams212's tweet card. “The problem is that we’re genetically unequal […] These humans have no chance of really competing with most other humans. So what do you…

Rachel Adams@RachelAdams212 · Dec 9, 2017

A new essay on my adventures in biology, this one on HeLa cells, bioethics, and historical memory. Please read and share: medium.com/@racheladams21…

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