Readings in Critical and Intersectional ADHD Studies

Find here academic reading suggestions for Critical and Intersectional ADHD Studies (CI-ADHD) Studies. I thought about including non-academic ones too, but many others do that so there’s no point in replicating. I will include both peer reviewed publications as well as non-peer reviewed and academic-adjacent contributions (eg presentations that are in the process of being written up as publications).

This is just a start so I will keep on updating this list. (Last update: 24 Jul 2025)

Please contact me (drddhuijg AT gmail DOT com) with suggestions for academic texts to be added here (or if you feel a text does not belong here). If you want to add your open access publication to this list, contact me on the same address. Note that no articles published after Sep 2019 in Disability & Society will be included (see here for the reasons of this boycott).

  • Attias, Michelle D. (2020). “Mind-meandering as AD(H)D methodology: An embodied, neuroqueer practice of art-making and resistance in dialogue with Kurt Cobain’s and Lee Lozano’s Journals“. Research in Arts & Education, (Dec), 53–85. (open access version)
  • Basten, Laura. (2023). “The Codex is always on crip time: ADHD(ness) and reading“. Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, 15, pp.89–96. (paywall access version)
  • Basten, Laura. (accepted). “‘Another book I bought’. Samuel Pepys and the (im)possibility of historical ADHDness“. In: Bridget M Bartlett, Bradley J Irish & Laura Seymour (Eds), Neurodivergence in Early Modern English Literature: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Berezin, Jared David. (2014). “Disabled capital: A narrative of Attention Deficit Disorder in the classroom through the lens of Bourdieu’s capital“. Disability Studies Quarterly, 34(4).  http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3793/3785
  • Brown, Andrew Ivan. (2024). “ADHD, academics, and communities: Who are the ‘ADHD experts’?“. In: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & David Jackson-Perry (Eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies (pp.399–410): Palgrave Macmillan. (paywall access to the book)
  • Brown, Andrew Ivan, Rosqvist, Hanna Bertilsdotter, & Jackson-Perry, David. (2024). “An introduction to Critical ADHD Studies“. In: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & David Jackson-Perry (Eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies (pp.41–57): Palgrave Macmillan. (paywall book version)
  • Chatterjee, Sohini. (2023). “Neurodivergent, queer and/or trans, Femme: can ‘neurofemme’ be (more than) theory?“. Revista Mundaú, (13), pp.106–136. (open access version)
  • Chatterjee, Sohini. (2023). “Neoliberal Precarity AND Neuroqueer Possibility: Exploring Care, Kinship AND Relational Becoming AS Resistance“. In: Sohini Chatterjee & Po-Han Lee (Eds), Plural Feminisms: Navigating Resistance as Everyday Praxis, pp.105. (paywall book version)
  • Citton, Yves. (2023). “Attention Disorders between impairment and ferality“. Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 65, pp.10–33. (open access version)
  • Edwards, Claire. (2014). “Spatialising the contentious politics of ADHD: Networks and scalar strategies in health social movement activism“. Health & Place, 29, pp.52–59. (paywall version)
  • Flowers, Johnathan  (2021). “Disability as a Cultural Problem“. Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 5(4), 39-61. https://eidos.uw.edu.pl/files/pdf/eidos/2021-04/eidos_18_flowers.pdf
  • Hanan, Joshua S. (2019). “Subjects of technology: An auto-archeology of Attention Deficit Disorder in neoliberal time(s)“. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 19(2), pp.105–115. (paywall version)
  • Huijg, Dyi Dieuwertje. (2021, 01/07). “ADHD whiteness: An exploration of the (absent) role of race in ADHD research“. [Academic blog post]. Flipped webinar: ‘Intersectional Approaches to Disability and Race’ (09/07/21). https://intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/spin-offs/disability-and-race-webinar/huijg-adhd-whiteness.
  • Huijg, Dyi Dieuwertje. (2020). “Neuronormativity in theorising agency: An argument for a critical neurodiversity approach.” In: Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Nick Chown & Anna Stenning (Eds), Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm (pp.213-217): Routledge. [Invited book chapter] (open access version)
  • Hultman, Lill, & Hultman, Maya. (2024). “Doing Participatory ADHD-led Research“. In: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & David Jackson-Perry (Eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies (pp.199–213). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. (paywall book version)
  • Isebor, Vivienne. (2021, 01/07). “Invisible & overlooked: ADHD in Black Women and Non-binary people“. [Academic blog post]. Flipped webinar: ‘Intersectional Approaches to Disability and Race‘ (09/07/21). https://intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/spin-offs/disability-and-race-webinar/isebor-invisible-overlooked-adhd-black-women
  • Johansson, Shruti Taneja. (2024). “Fostering ethical and caring fieldwork practices in ADHD research“. In: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & David Jackson-Perry (Eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies (pp.183–198). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. (paywall access to the book)
  • Jones, Sophie A. (2020). “Minimalism’s attention deficit: Distraction, description, and Mary Robison’s Why Did I Ever“. American Literary History, 32(2), 301-327. (open access version)
  • Kaufman, EC, Chennault, Carrie, & Molana, Hanieh. (2024). “Slow(ed) scholarship: On crip time and refusal from the intersections of privilege and precarity“. ACME, 23(5), pp.379–401. (open access version)
  • Lewis, Chantelle Jessica, & Arday, Jason. (2023). “We’ll see things they’ll never see: Sociological reflections on race, neurodiversity and higher education“. The Sociological Review, 71(6), 1299-1321. (open access version)
  • Miller, Erez C., & and Fleischmann, Amos. (2024). “Teaching as a corrective experience for self and others: narratives of teachers with ADHD“. Cambridge Journal of Education, 54(2), pp.165–181. (paywall version)
  • Miller, Ryan A. (2020). “Out of (queer/disabled) time: Temporal experiences of disability and LGBTQ+ identities in US higher education“. Critical Education, 11(16), pp.1–20. (open access version)
  • Moody, Myles. (2016). “From Under-Diagnoses to Over-Representation: Black Children, ADHD, and the School-To-Prison Pipeline”. Journal of African American Studies, 20(2), pp.152–163. (open access version)
  • Morrison, Aimée. (2019). “(Un)reasonable, (un)necessary, and (in)appropriate: Biographic mediation of neurodivergence in academic accommodations“. Biography, 42(3), 693-719 (open access version)
  • Nielsen, Mikka. (2014). “ADHD and Temporal Experiences“. In: Michael G Flaherty , Lotte Meinert & Anne Line Dalsgård (Eds), Time Work: Studies of Temporal Agency (pp.33–42): Berghahn Books. (paywall version book)
  • Nielsen, Mikka. (2017). “My ADHD and me: Identifying with and distancing from ADHD“. Nordic Psychology, 69(1), pp.33–46. (open access version)
  • Nielsen, Mikka. (2018). “Structuring the self: Moral implications of getting an ADHD diagnosis“. Ethnos, 83(5), pp.892–908. (paywall version)
  • O’Donnovan, Maeve. (2010). “Feminism, disability, and women with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder”. Journal of Critical Studies in Business & Society, 1(1/2), 29-54 (paywall version)
  • O’Donovan, Maeve. (2013). “The practical and theoretical challenges of mothering with disabilities: A feminist standpoint analysis“. In: Sheila Lintott & Maureen Sander-Staudt (Eds), Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering (pp.93–106): Routledge. (paywall version)
  • O’Donovan, Maeve. (2013). “Feminism, disability, and evolutionary psychology: What’s Missing?“. Disability Studies Quarterly, 33(4). http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3872/3403
  • Pedersen, Anne Bettina. (2023). “About falling apart and trusting the process: Snapshots from the life (and work) of an academic with ADHD“. Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, (2), pp.108–113. (open access here)
  • Rasmussen, Gitte Vandborg, Thomsen, Per Hove, Lemcke, Sanne, et al. (2025). “‘I Do not have ADHD When I Drive My Truck’. Exploring the Temporal Dynamics of ADHD as a Lived Experience“. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11013-025-09910-x
  • Rasmussen, Gitte Vandborg, Meinert, Lotte, & Flaherty, Michael G. (2024). “Time and ADHD in Danish Families: Mutual Affect Through Rhythm“. Medical Anthropology, 43(7), pp.626–640. (open access here)
  • Reyes II, Rudolph P. (2021, 01/07). “ADHD Latinxs as nepantleras: Embracing multiple worlds“. [Academic blog post]. Flipped webinar: ‘Intersectional Approaches to Disability and Race‘ (09/07/21). https://intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/spin-offs/disability-and-race-webinar/reyes-adhd-latinxs-as-nepantleras
  • Rosqvist, Hanna Bertilsdotter, Hultman, Lill, Österborg Wiklund, Sofia, et al. (2023). “ADHD in higher education and academia“. Canadian Journal on Disability Studies, 12(3), pp.1–26. https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/1032/1199
  • Rosqvist, Hanna Bertilsdotter, Hultman, Lill, Österborg Wiklund, Sofia, et al. (2023). “Intensity and variable attention: Counter narrating ADHD, from ADHD deficits to ADHD difference“. The British Journal of Social Work, 53, pp.3647–3664. (open access version)
  • Schenk, Katie N. (2018). “ADHD and the deficit of knowing: What?“. Crossing Borders: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship, 3(1), pp.1. (open access version)
  • Smith, Timothy J. (2024). “Crip time travels through the membrane and vortex: An autoethnographic inquiry of neurodivergent student temporality in Higher Art Education“. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 43(4), pp.683–697. (paywall version)
  • Staub, Michael E. (2018). “Minimal Brain Dysfunction, Ritalin, and racial politics“. The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve (pp.49-77): University of North Carolina Press. (paywall version)
  • Steglich-Petersen, Asbjørn, & Varga, Somogy. “Curiosity and zetetic style in ADHD“. Philosophical Psychology, 1-25. (open access version)
  • Tan, Kai Syng. (2024). Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership. An A-Z Towards Collective Liberation. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. (open access version)
  • Tan, Kai Syng. (2022, 16/11). “Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture“. SRHE News Blog. https://srheblog.com/2022/11/16/using-tentacular-pedagogy-to-change-the-he-culture/
  • Tan, Kai Syng. (2020). “Power, Play and Pedagogy through the PowerPoint Performance-Lecture“. International Journal of Management and Applied Research, 7(3), pp.382–394 (open access version)
  • Tan, Kai Syng. (2018, 05/02). “Mind Wandering: Best Friend or Worst Enemy? An art-science inquiry“. [Blog post]. a-n The Artists Information Company.  https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/mind-wandering-best-friend-or-worst-enemy.
  • Terry, David P. (2016). “Explanation not excuse: Attention Deficit Disorder, collegiality and coalition“. Disability Studies Quarterly, 36(2). https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/4447/4305
  • Treftz, Jill Marie. (2017). “Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Jane Eyre’s Helen Burns“. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 11(4), pp.443–460. (paywall here)

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