M. Remi Yergeau
M. Remi Yergeau | |
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| Born | 1984 (age 39–40) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Assistant professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education |
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| Thesis | Disabling Composition: Toward a 21st-Century, Synaesthetic Theory of Writing (2011) |
| Doctoral advisor |
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| Other advisors | H. Lewis Ulman |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Rhetoric and Composition |
| Sub-discipline | Disability Studies |
| Notable works | Authoring Autism |
M. Remi Yergeau (formerly Melanie Yergeau, born 1984)[1] is an American academic in the fields of rhetoric and writing studies, digital studies, queer rhetoric, disability studies, and theories of mind. As of 2024, Yergeau is an Arthur F. Thurnau associate professor of Digital Studies and English at the University of Michigan.
Yergeau received a Bachelor of Arts in writing from Geneva College in 2005, a Master of Arts in writing from DePaul University in 2007, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in English from the Ohio State University in 2011.[2] After receiving their Ph.D., Yergeau became an assistant professor with the Department of English at the University of Michigan. They were promoted to associate professor in 2017.[2]
Yergeau published their first book, Authoring Autism, in 2018.[3] The book won the 2017 Modern Language Association First Book Prize,[4] the 2019 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award, and the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award.[5] Further, the book has been reviewed in several academic and public venues, including American Literature,[6] Disability & Society,[7] Feminist Formations,[8] GLQ,[9] the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies,[10] the Los Angeles Review of Books,[11] philoSOPHIA,[12] Rhetoric Society Quarterly,[13] and Public Books.[14]
Yergeau is autistic and uses they/them pronouns.[15]
Accolades[edit]
| Year | Text | Award | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | "Expanding the Space of f2f" | Kairos Best Webtext Award | Winner | [16] |
| 2010 | "aut(hored)ism" | Kairos Best Webtext Award | Honorable mention | [16] |
| 2015 | "Clinically Significant Disturbance" | Kathleen Ethel Welch Outstanding Article Award | Honorable mention | [17] |
| 2017 | Authoring Autism | Modern Language Association First Book Prize | Winner | [18] |
| 2019 | CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship | Winner | [19] | |
| Rhetoric Society of America Book Award | Winner | [5] |
Publications[edit]
Articles[edit]
- Yergeau, M. Remi; Wozniak, Kathryn (2008-08-15). "Expanding the Space of f2f: Writing Centers and Audio-Visual-Textual Conferencing". Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 13 (1). Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- Yergeau, M. Remi (Spring 2009). "aut(hored)ism". Computers and Composition Online. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- Yergeau, M. Remi (2010). "Circle Wars: Reshaping the Typical Autism Essay". Disability Studies Quarterly. 30 (1). doi:10.18061/dsq.v30i1.1063. ISSN 2159-8371.
- Heilker, Paul; Yergeau, M. Remi (May 2011). "Autism and Rhetoric". College English. 73 (5): 485–497. doi:10.58680/ce201114900. ISSN 0010-0994.
- Yergeau, M. Remi; Brewer, Elizabeth; Kerschbaum, Stephanie L.; Oswal, Sushil; Price, Margaret; Salvo, Michael J.; Selfe, Cynthia L.; Howes, Franny (2013-08-15). "Multimodality in Motion: Disability and Kairotic Spaces". Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 18 (1). Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- Yergeau, M. Remi (2013-09-05). "Clinically Significant Disturbance: On Theorists Who Theorize Theory of Mind". Disability Studies Quarterly. 33 (4). doi:10.18061/dsq.v33i4.3876. ISSN 2159-8371.
- Yergeu, M. Remi (Spring 2014). "Disability Hacktivism". In Sayers; Hocks (eds.). Hacking the Classroom: Eight Perspectives. Computers and Composition Online.
- Yergeau, M. Remi; Selfe; Brewer (Fall 2014). "Creating a Culture of Access in Composition Studies". Composition Studies. 42 (2).
- Boyle, Casey; Vie, Stephanie; Micciche, Laura; Yergeau, M. Remi; Dadas, Caroline; Morris, Janine; Smith, Christian; Blankenship, Lisa (2015-06-01). "e.pluribus plures: DMAC and its Keywords". Computers and Composition. CIWIC, DMAC, and Technology Professional Development in Rhetoric and Composition. 36: 1–15. doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2015.04.004. ISSN 8755-4615.
- Eyman, Douglas; Ball, Cheryl E.; Boggs, Jeremy; Booher, Amanda K.; Burnside, Elkie; DeWitt, Scott Lloyd; Dockter, Jason; Dolmage, Jay; Gardner, Traci (2016-01-01). "Access/ibility: Access and Usability for Digital Publishing". Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 20 (2). Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- Yergeau, M. Remi; Huebner, Bryce (September 2017). "Minding Theory of Mind". Journal of Social Philosophy. 48 (3): 273–296. doi:10.1111/josp.12191. ISSN 0047-2786.
- Gernsbacher; Yergeau, M. Remi (2019). "Empirical Failures of the Claim that Autistic People Lack a Theory of Mind". Archives of Scientific Psychology. 7 (1): 102–118. doi:10.1037/arc0000067. PMC 6959478. PMID 31938672.
- Ho, Ai Binh T.; Kerschbaum, Stephanie L.; Sanchez, Rebecca; Yergeau, M. Remi (2020). "Cripping Neutrality: Student Resistance, Pedagogical Audiences, and Teachers' Accommodations". Pedagogy. 20 (1): 127–139. doi:10.1215/15314200-7879120. ISSN 1533-6255.
- Yergeau, M. Remi (2020-05-26). "Cassandra Isn't Doing the Robot: On Risky Rhetorics and Contagious Autism". Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 50 (3): 212–221. doi:10.1080/02773945.2020.1752132. ISSN 0277-3945.
Books[edit]
- Ashkenazy, Elesia; Yergeau, M. Remi, eds. (February 20, 2013). "Handbook: Relationships and Sexuality" (PDF). The Arc Autism Now. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- Yergeau, M. Remi (2018). Authoring autism: on rhetoric and neurological queerness. Thought in the act. Durham London: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-7218-9. JSTOR j.ctv1168bxt.
Book chapters[edit]
- Blackburn; Yergeau, Melanie (2017). "Mine, Yours, and Ours: Developing Collaborative Relationships in the Academic Sphere". In Davis, Andrea; Webb, Suzanne (eds.). Metamorphosis: The Effects of Professional Development on Graduate Students. Fountainhead Press. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- Yergeau, M. Remi. "Design". In Heilker, Paul; Vandenberg, Peter (eds.). Keywords in Writing Studies. University Press of Colorado. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- Yergeau, M. Remi. "Production". In Heilker, Paul; Vandenberg, Peter (eds.). Keywords in Writing Studies. University Press of Colorado. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- Yergeau, M. Remi (2016). "Occupying Autism: Rhetoric, Involuntarity, and the Meaning of Autistic Lives". In Block, Pamela; Kasnitz, Devva; Nishida, Akemi; Pollard, Nick (eds.). Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability. SpringerLink.
- Yergeau, M. Remi (2018). "Wandering Rhetoric, Rhetoric Wandering". In Wysocki, Rick; Sheridan, Mary P. (eds.). Making Future Matters. Computers and Composition Digital Press. ISBN 978-1-60732-899-5.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Authoring autism : on rhetoric and neurological queerness / M. Remi Yergeau". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ a b "melanie yergeau" (PDF). University of Michigan. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ McClintick, Jay (2019-06-07). "Can Rhetoric Survive a Neuroqueer Future? A Review of M. Remi Yergeau's Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness". enculturation. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ Krebs, Paula M. (2018-12-05). "MLA Prize for a First Book Awarded to Amanda Jo Goldstein for Sweet Science and to Melanie Yergeau for Authoring Autism; Corey McEleney and Britt Rusert to Receive Honorable Mentions" (PDF). Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ a b "Book Award". Rhetoric Society of America. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ Jenson, Deborah (2020-03-01). "See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English ProfessorAuthoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness". American Literature. 92 (1): 183–185. doi:10.1215/00029831-8056700. ISSN 0002-9831.
- ^ Williams, Anna (2018-07-03). "Authoring autism: on rhetoric and neurological queerness: Authoring autism: on rhetoric and neurological queerness, by Melanie Yergeau, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2017, 312 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-82-237020-8, $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-82-237011-6". Disability & Society. 33 (6): 996–997. doi:10.1080/09687599.2018.1457500. ISSN 0968-7599.
- ^ Kizer, Sam (Winter 2020). "Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by M. Remi Yergeau (review)". Feminist Formations. 32 (3). Baltimore: 183–185. doi:10.1353/ff.2020.0050. ProQuest 2474491651 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Mullaney, Clare (2020-04-01). "Fucking with Rhetoric". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 26 (2): 355–357. doi:10.1215/10642684-8141942. ISSN 1064-2684.
- ^ Karmiris, Maria (2019). "Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Melanie Yergeau (review)". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 13 (4): 483–486. doi:10.3828/jlcds.2019.36. ISSN 1757-6466.
- ^ Wing, Travis Chi Lau (2019-05-02). "The Poetics of Autism". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ Parks, Alison (2021). "Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University by Matt Brim, and: Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare, and: Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by M. Remi Yergeau (review)". PhiloSOPHIA. 11 (1): 250–257. doi:10.1353/phi.2021.0040. ISSN 2155-0905 – via Project MUSE.
- ^ Johnson, Jenell (2021-01-01). "Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness: by M. Remi Yergeau, Durham, NC, Duke UP, 2018, 312 pp., $27.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8223-7020-8". Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 51 (1): 71–72. doi:10.1080/02773945.2020.1851117. ISSN 0277-3945.
- ^ Galvin, Annie (2019-09-23). "Autism Aesthetics". Public Books. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ "About". m. remi yergeau. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ a b "M. Remi Yergeau | U-M LSA English Language and Literature". University of Michigan. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ "Awards". Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ "Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book Winners". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ "Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship". Conference on College Composition and Communication. 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
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- 1984 births
- Living people
- DePaul University alumni
- Geneva College alumni
- Ohio State University Graduate School alumni
- University of Michigan faculty
- 21st-century American academics
- American LGBT academics
- Non-binary scholars and academics
- Writers with autism
- American writers with disabilities
- Scholars and academics with disabilities
- LGBT writers with disabilities