She is a Professor of History and director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University.
In 2013 she began to co-direct San Francisco's Superfest International Disability Film Festival alongside the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired and Bryan Bashin.
[2] In 2010, along with Professor Susan Schweik, she headed an initiative that brought together scholars to explore the future of disability studies.
[6] Her books include Reflections: the Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post Revolutionary France with Dr. Zina Weygand and Cholera in Post-Revolutionary Paris: A Cultural History.
[7] After the death of Paul K. Longmore in 2010, Kudlick oversaw the completion and publication of his book Telethons: Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity.