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This website is currently being re-created on Wordpress. For the most recent content and announcements, please visit the new site: http://www.disabilityrhetoric.wordpress.com.

For now, both sites remain up, especially during CCCC 2012, but this older site will be completely transferred and taken down in the coming months.

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This is a website for, and about, people studying, teaching, and researching at the intersection of disability studies and rhetoric/composition. The url for this site - "disability rhetoric" - speaks to those of us in rhetoric who "do" disability studies, and also challenges the idea that discussions about language and disability are "just rhetoric." Please take a look around, and send any resources you'd like to add to Dr. Amy Vidali, such as bibliographies and teaching materials.

This site was created in 2009, and grew out of the Disability Studies Special Interest Group (SIG) at the Conference on College Composition (CCCC), which formed in 2008 and continues to meet each year. At the first SIG meeting, Amy Vidali (Chair) provided a resource packet and a summary of CCCC talks on disability from 2003-2007. The SIG is now co-chaired by Drs. Amy Vidali and Margaret Price, and the SIG will next meet at CCCC in 2011. Each year when we meet at the conference, we model and think about new ways to make our conference presentations accessible at CCCC.

This is not an official CCCC site; instead, it's our place to make connections. The more policy-oriented group of CCCC is the Committee on Disability Issues in College Composition (CDICC), and there's a tab on this site with some information about them.


About Your Webmistress:
Amy Vidali created and manages this site. I am an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver, and I am interested in the rhetorical politics of disability in the texts of higher education, disability in metaphor theory, and most recently, the rhetoric of gastrointestinal disorders.