Rebecah Pulsifer

Rebecah Pulsifer is a Collective Bargaining and Research Consultant with the Ohio Education Association. She has published articles on literary modernism, disability studies, and the concept of intelligence.

Contributions

Literary Modernism and the Psychometric Subject

Literary modernism developed alongside the emergence of a new set of diagnostic categories designed to describe degrees of supposedly subnormal intelligence.[1] Guided by the emergent discipline of psychometry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, terms that had signaled developmental delay and physical frailty in the e