Rod Michalko

Rod Michalko is a Canadian scholar in the field of disability studies.

Michalko earned his Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from the University of British Columbia.^[1] In 2007, he worked at New College, Toronto, where he designed a series of disability studies courses.^[1] He has since retired from the University of Toronto.^[2]

Michalko began losing his vision as a child and is now blind.^[1] Until 2001, Michalko was aided by his guide dog, Smokie, which he has written about in The Two-in-One (1999) and Letters with Smokie (2023). Since Smokie's death, Michalko has used a white cane.^[1]

Michalko is the partner of fellow academic Tanya Titchkosky.^[3]

Books

Author

• Michalko, Rod (1998). The Mystery of the Eye and the Shadow of Blindness. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8093-6.^[4]
• Michalko, Rod (1999). The Two-in-One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-56639-649-3.^[5][6]
• Michalko, Rod (2002). The Difference that Disability Makes. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-56639-933-3.^[7]
• Michalko, Rod (2017). Things are Different Here: And Other Stories. London, Ontario: Insomniac Press. ISBN 978-1-55483-188-3. OCLC 961802486.^[8]
• Michalko, Rod; Goodley, Dan (2023). Letters with Smokie: Blindness and More-than-Human Relations. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press. ISBN 978-1-77284-033-9.^[9][10]

Editor

• Titchkosky, Tanya; Michalko, Rod, eds. (2009). Rethinking Normalcy: A Disability Studies Reader. Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Scholars' Press. ISBN 978-1-55130-363-5.^[11][12]