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About Me
I'm a Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Communication and an associate professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University. I also direct the Digital Accessible Futures Lab as a part of the DISCO Network.
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, 2017), 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. Along with 13 colleagues from DISCO, I am a co-author of Technoskepticism (Stanford UP, 2025).
CV
Here is my education, work experience, & current obsessions.
Experience
Carleton University
CRC + Associate Professor
January 2025 - Present
I work in the Communication and Media Studies (COMS) program, in the School of Journalism and Communication.
University of Michigan
Associate Professor
September 2017 - december 2024
Assistant Professor
September 2011 - august 2017
I was a faculty member in the Department of English Language and Literature, as well as the Digital Studies Institute (DSI). I also served as DSI's Associate Director from 2018-2022 and 2023-2024.
Education
The Ohio State University
PhD, English (Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy)
June 2011
DePaul University
MA, Writing
June 2007
Obsessions & miscellany
Selected Projects
Selected Projects I Have Worked On.
Digital Accessible Futures Lab
The Digital Accessible Futures Lab is a cross-institutional research and co-mentoring collective that centers crip wisdom, neuroqueer futures, and disability liberation in its engagement with the digital.
Crip Computing: Imagining Access
With funding support from the Mozilla Foundation’s Responsible Computing Challenge, Imagining Access invites learners to consider the technological by centering disability in their everyday lives.