Denise M. Nepveux, Ph.D.

Biography

Denise M. Nepveux is an Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy (OT). Her teaching focuses on community practice, social and occupational justice, mental health and aging. She completed her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy at Washington University in St. Louis. She practiced as an OT in mental health in the Chicago area and earned her Ph.D. in disability studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for dissertation research in Ghana and a NIDRR-funded postdoctoral fellowship in disability and rehabilitation research from Syracuse University. She has published her research in Disability Studies Quarterly and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. She has presented on her community activism and arts collaborations at the Network of Ensemble Theaters and written about them in Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice and Decolonizing Disability.