Welcome to the resource guide for the First Year Reading Program's 2024 pick, What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren (2020), created by librarians Courtney Walsh and Vicky Ludas Orlofsky.
The FYRP is an initiative of the Office of Undergraduate Student Life. Incoming students are encouraged to participate in the Summer Engagement Contest and explore their personal connection to the selected book. Find more at the link below or email student_life@stevens.edu with questions.
This guide is organized into tabs. Through these tabs, we invite you to learn more about author Sara Hendren and explore Disability, Design and the Built World @ Stevens.
In addition, you will also find a tab for every chapter of What Can a Body Do? (listed below and on the left) that presents and expands upon the main theme of that chapter, including Hendren's projects, cited authors and companies, or key concepts. Further Reading tabs for many chapters include other authors and ideas of note.
When you come across books or articles held by the Library, please log into myStevens to read them. And if you'd like to learn more about any topic mentioned here, feel free to email the librarians!
When writing about an aspect of a person's identity, it's critical to do so in the right ways. We have endeavored to use inclusive language in this guide; please let us know if anything needs correcting.
