Disability Rhetoric

Please send resources to Dev Bose (dev.k.bose@gmail.com).

Bibliographies

• Disability and Rhetoric Bibliography (Vidali, Bose)
• Bibliography on Writing Centers and Disability (Hitt)
• Disability Themed Issues in Academic Journals, 1993-2015 (Brueggemann)
• Disability Studies: WPA CompPile Bibliography (Wood, Price, Johnson)
• Disability and Literacy (Dunn)
• Autism and Rhetoric (Yergeau)
• Disability and ‘Visibility’ Bibliography (Price)
• Bodies and Emotions (Dolmage)
• Disability and Phenomenology (Dolmage)
• Disability Autobiography and Memoir Bibliography (Kerschbaum)
• Memoirs of Mental Illness (Scrofano)

Selected teaching resources & syllabi:

• Stefan Honisch Course Syllabus Disabilities Cultures and the Vulnerable Sensorium Fall 2017

• Accessible syllabus for promoting engagement and agency (Womack, Blanchard, Wang, and Jessee)
• Disability studies resource site for high school language arts instructors (Wilson)
• Syllabus statements and guidance about disability and accommodations (Strandjord)
• Syllabus statements and guidance about diversity and accessibility (Strandjord)
• Information and Resources on Disability, UD, and UDL (Bentley, Chaderdon, and Silvester)
• Understanding UDL Lesson Plan (Chaterdon, Johnson, and Silvester)
• Teaching UDL through Visual and Spatial Analysis PPT (Bentley, Chaterdon, and Silvester)
• Suggested Practices for Syllabus Accessibility Statements (Wood and Madden)
• Writing 118: Portraits of Disability and Difference (Lindgren)
• Writing 205: Everyday Representations of Disability (Hitt)

• English 246: Advanced Composition (disability focus, with assignments) (Selznick)
• English 290: Feminism and Disability Studies (Vidali)
• English 384: Introduction to Cultural Theory (Jung)
• English 389: Composing Disability, Health and Wellness (Price)
• G104: Gender and Disability Syllabus (Schalk)
• English 316: Disability Studies (Yergeau)
• English 416: Autism, Culture, and Representation (Yergeau)
• ASL 3350: Deaf Literature and Arts (Brueggemann)
• WGS/DST 370: Feminism Disability Life Writing (Lewiecki-Wilson)
• English 3084: Inclusion in a Digital Age (Vidali) 
• English 4190/5190: Rhetoric and the Body (Vidali)
• English 4190: Rhetoric and the Body [slightly modified from above] (Vidali)
• English 40195: Literature and Disability (Duffy)
• English 4597 Deaf-World (Brueggemann)
• English 580: Disability Rhetorics (Yergeau)
• English 585 Disability Language, Rhetoric, and Narrative (Dunn)
• English 5950: The New “Normal”: Introduction to Disability Studies (Obermark)
  • See also student generated list of annotated bibliographies related to DS topics here (link opens in new window)
• English 7891 Disability Language and Literature (Brueggemann)
• English 793: Bodily Rhetorics and Representations (Dolmage)
• Women Studies 290: Feminism and Disability readings (Vidali)
• Topics in Disability Studies (Siebers & Somers)

More resources: 

• Post-election 2016 materials (This section includes resources that instructors and administrators may find useful for teaching and organizing post-election events. Descriptions are provided within each linked document.)
  • Facilitating Important Conversations About Important Controversial Issues-brown bag proposal (Bose, Ferguson, Martinez)
  • Addressing Concerns After the Election-email message for admin listservs (Miller-Cochran, Tardy)
  • Disability and Race Articles-compilation of listserv members’ contributions, to be updated as far as contributions are provided)

• TEDx Talk on Disability and Imagination (part of the TEDxFSCJ: Engage Conference in November 2016; titled “The confluence of disability and imagination”

In this talk, Emily Michael explores the limited characters that others often expect disabled people to play—and how we can find a more empathetic alternative through dialogue, negotiation, and imagination.

• Resources on Writing Image Descriptions (This compilation represents listserv members’ contributions in March 2016, and will be updated as far as contributions are provided.)
• CCCC 2016 Accessibility Guide
• Debbie’s Friends (children’s novel about people with disabilities; open-access distribution copy)

In Debbie’s Friends, Debbie Johnson starts by introducing herself and the fact that she is an amputee. In the following chapters, two children she befriends, Jenny and Johnny, meet her friends with other disabilities, including physical, mental, and developmental ones.  They talk to Debbie’s friends and see them in their environment to understand how they cope with their limitations while remaining functional people. Johnson is also author of The Disability Experience, The Disability Experience II. www.thedisabilityexperience.vpweb.com

• The Shaking Keeps Us Steady (presentation given at Wabash College on Nov. 19, 2015, by Crystal Benedicks)

Wabash College is a small liberal arts college for men. They have a tradition of a weekly talk given by a faculty member to the student body. Faculty are chosen by the student body and are meant to speak to an issue that is pertinent to the college. These are called “Chapel Talks” because they happen in the college’s defunct chapel, but neither they nor the college has a religious affiliation. This Chapel Talk focuses on mental health from a disability studies perspective. The video may be useful as a teaching tool for the faculty who visit the site.

• Special issue of Pedagogy (includes articles directly connected to writing pedagogy, rhetoric, and disability studies)
• Support for first year composition students with disabilities (CWPA 2015 Presentation, by Mary F. Rice)
• Institutional Archaeology: What We Learn By Digging Up Dead Programs (CWPA Presentation, by Andrew Lucchesi) 
• Storify Collection of Disability- and Accessibility-Related Tweets from CCCC (#4c15) in Tampa, by Allison Hitt
• CCCC 2015 Accessibility Guide (also available for download at the conference website)
• Disability Rhetorics: From “Disabled Upon Arrival to Academic Eugenics (Jay Dolmage, Address at University of Delaware, September 2014) (link opens to new page that includes video, scripts, and slides)
• Breaking Down Barriers and Enabling Access: (Dis)ability in Writing Classrooms and Programs (CCCC 2014, reviewed by Kristi McDuffie)
• Captioned/described videos of disability-studies “In Conversation” panel from the 2014 Rhetoric Society of America conference (Margaret Price & Jim Cherney) (links below open in new pages)
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
• Critically Engaging Others: Pedagogical Encounters with Disability (CCCC 2005, reviewed by Amy Vidali)
• Speaking the Body: Marginalized Identities and Performative Rhetorics (CCCC 2007, reviewed by Amy Vidali)
• Intersections of Access: Disabilities and Varieties of English (CCCC 2004, reviewed by Stephanie Kerschbaum)