English Dept. Fall 2024 Webinar: Disability in Higher Education
About the event
The Department of English at WSU invites you to its Fall 2024 Webinar titled “Disability in Higher Education” by Dr. Margaret Price and Dr. Ada Hubrig. The speakers will discuss disability in higher education and how we might reimagine our conceptions of access. This webinar is co-sponsored by the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities (DGPCAH) and the Department of English at Washington State University.
Date: Friday, September 27
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM PT
Register in advance to join this webinar! Please use the link to register.
Margaret Price is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Disability Studies Program at Ohio State University. She is a genderqueer femme and scholar of rhetoric, disability studies, and qualitative methods. Her open-source book Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024) draws upon a mixed-methods study with over 250 disabled faculty and staff. Her first book, Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life (University of Michigan Press, 2011), won the Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC). Price is co-PI of the Transformative Access Project and received a 2022 Fulbright Research Award.
Ada Hubrig (they/them; Twitter @AdaHubrig) is an autistic, genderqueer, disabled caretaker of cats. They live in Huntsville, Texas, where they work as an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Composition at Sam Houston State University. Their research and teaching explore disability, especially at the intersection of composition pedagogy, queer rhetorics, community literacy, and teacher preparation. Their research is featured in College, Composition, and Communication, the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, the Community Literacy Journal, and Reflections among others. Their words have also found homes in Brevity and Disability Visibility Blog. Ada is the managing editor of the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics.