Welcome! I am an Arthur F. Thurnau associate professor of Digital Studies and English at the University of Michigan. I also direct the Digital Accessible Futures Lab as a part of the DISCO Network, which receives support from the Mellon Foundation. DISCO’s collaboratively authored book, Technoskepticism, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press in February 2025.
I’m an autistic academic, and my scholarly interests include rhetoric & writing studies, digital studies, trans and queer rhetorics, disability studies, and theories of mind. My book, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Duke UP), is a winner of the 2017 Modern Language Association First Book Prize, the 2019 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship, and the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award.
I am currently at work on two single-authored book projects: 1) Crip Data, on disability, techno-rhetorics, and sociality, and 2) Intrusive Trans Thoughts, on trans-mad perseveration. I am also currently working on a book project with V. Jo Hsu, tentatively titled TERF: Transantagonistic Enthymemes and Rhetorical Fallacies.
My other publications can be found in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Pedagogy, Journal of Social Philosophy, Kairos, Disability Studies Quarterly, and College English, among other places.
I use they/them/theirs pronouns. Please cite my current and former work with the name M. Remi Yergeau.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I am an avid fan of the Electric Light Orchestra. If there’s any way for me to mention ELO in conversation — however un/naturally — I will do it. Hold on tight!
