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Disability in the Rhetoric and Writing Classroom

This month, we are working on prioritizing accessibility in the writing classroom by improving and creating articles related to pivotal scholars and scholarship at the intersection of Disability and Writing Studies. We aim to work together to address inequities on Wikipedia as we create and contribute to these articles.

Our main goals are to . . .

1. Set writing goals: Create achievable goals for contributions to a target article or articles.

2. Coordinate collaboration: Form writing groups of WikiProject Writing participants interested in improving the same article or articles.

3. Combat knowledge inequities: Address content gaps by creating new content with attention to the research and scholarship of marginalized writing studies teacher-scholars.


Take action by...

1. Choosing an article: Head to our article worklist to find an article you'd like to work on.

2. Setting a goal: Edit our 'Setting goals' section with your suggested plan for the month.

3. Create or collaborate on an article: Use our Editing resources section to help create a draft, assess notability, find sources, and request feedback.


Writing recommendations

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Find an article you are interested in working on from our articles for creation list below.

Create achievable goals for the month. Here are a few writing recommendations based on weekly time segments:

If you have fifteen minutes each week . . .

  • Add a few citations to a draft article
  • Add a few selected publications or notable awards to a biography of an academic
  • Suggest revisions and point to sources on the talk page

If you have thirty minutes each week . . .

  • Expand a draft article with a new section or a few paragraphs

If you have an hour or more each week . . .

  • Draft an article in need of creation (redlinks)

Past spotlights

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Article worklist

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Alongside each biography of an academic, we've suggested a few field-specific articles and general interest, vital articles to incorporate relevant scholarship into. Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding featured-class articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement. Additionally, scholars and topics linked in 'red' are articles that have yet to be created on Wikipedia.

Scholar Scholarship Vital articles Field-specific articles Establishing notability
Brenda Jo Brueggemann

(Faculty page)

Google Scholar

  • Brueggemann, Brenda Jo. "On (Almost) Passing." College English, vol. 59, no. 6, 1997, pp. 647-660. https://doi.org/10.2307/378278
  • Snyder, S. L., Brueggemann, B. J., & Garland-Thomson, R. (2002). Disability studies: Enabling the humanities.
  • Brueggemann, B. J. (1999). Lend me your ear: Rhetorical constructions of deafness. Gallaudet University Press.
  • Brueggemann, Brenda Jo. Deaf subjects: Between identities and places. Vol. 12. NYU Press, 2009.
Jay Dolmage

(Faculty page)

Google Scholar

  • Dolmage, Jay. “Disability Rhetorics.” The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability. Clare Barker and Stuart Murray, Eds. London: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  • Dolmage, Jay. “Framing Disability, Fixing Race.” Disability Studies: An Introductory Reader. Lennard Davis, Ed. London: Routledge, 2017.
  • Dolmage, Jay and Dale Jacobs. “Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium.” Feats of Clay: Disability and Graphic Narrative. Ed. Chris Foss. Liverpool University Press, 2016.
  • "Essential Functionaries" in "Faculty Members, Accommodation, and Access in Higher Education." Profession. December, 2013.
  • Dolmage, Jay and Dale Jacobs. “Difficult Articulations: Comics Autobiography, Trauma and Disability.” The Future of Text and Image. Ofra Omahay and Lauren Walsh, eds. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2012. 69-92.
  • Reynolds, Nedra and Jay Dolmage. The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, 7th Edition. Boston: Bedford St, Martin’s Press, 2011.
Stephanie L. Kerschbaum

(Faculty page)

Google Scholar

  • Kerschbaum, Stephanie. “Retrofitting.” In “Multimodality in Motion: Disability and Kairotic Spaces.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 18, no. 1, 2013, http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/18.1/coverweb/yergeau-et-al/pages/mod/retro.html.
  • Kerschbaum, Stephanie L., Laura T. Eisenman, and James M. Jones, editors. Negotiating Disability: Disability and Higher Education. U of Michigan P, 2017.
  • Kerschbaum, Stephanie. Toward a New Rhetoric of Difference. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2014.
Margaret Price (scholar)

(Faculty page)

Google Scholar

  • (With Erin Kathleen Bahl). “The Rhetoric of Description: Embodiment, Power, and Playfulness in Representations of the Visual.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 26, no. 2, Jan. 2022.
  • “Time Harms: Disabled Faculty Navigating the Accommodations Loop.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 120, no. 2, 2021, pp. 257-277.
  • (With Andrew Holladay). “Mediating Minds: Disability Studies and the Rhetoric of Mental Health.” In Lisa Melonçon et al., Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2020, pp. 33-51.
  • “The Precarity of Disability/Studies in Academe.” Precarious Rhetorics. Ed. Wendy Hesford, Adela Licona, Christa Teston. Series in New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality, The Ohio State University Press, 2018, pp. 191-211.
  • “What Is a Service Animal? A Careful Rethinking.” Review of Disability Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, 2017.
Sami Schalk

(Faculty page)

Google Scholar

  • Schalk, Sami. “Metaphorically Speaking: Ableist Metaphors in Feminist Writing.” Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, 2013, http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3874.
  • Schalk, Sami. Bodyminds reimagined:(Dis) ability, race, and gender in Black women's speculative fiction. Duke University Press, 2018.
  • Schalk, Sami. "Reevaluating the supercrip." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 10.1 (2016): 71-87.

Additional sources

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Editing resources

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Accessibility resources

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Advice

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Dealing with disputes

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  • If you encounter a dispute or disagreement, follow the guidance below:
    • If an article content question is just between two editors, you can simply and quickly ask for a third opinion on the Third opinion page.
    • If more than two editors are involved or the issue is complex, dispute resolution is available through the Dispute resolution noticeboard.

October workshops & office hours

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The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts monthly workshops, office hours, and coffeehouses. If you need some help getting started, have specific questions, or would like to find space to work on your article alongside your collaborators, these are great spaces to do so:

CCCCWI Coffeehouse (Streaming on Twitch)

Friday 10/14 @ 1:00pm-2:00PM EST

Join here

Curious about how different people navigate editing Wikipedia? Drop-in whenever you'd like from 1:00pm-2:00pm ET on Twitch where CCCC scholars and/or the CCCC Wikipedian-in-residence will live edit Wikipedia on a different topic focus.


CCCCWI Speaker Series: Disability in the Rhetoric and Writing Classroom

Friday 10/28 @ 1:00pm-3:00pm EST

Register (limited to 25 participants)

This month, join us in discussing the importance of prioritizing accessibility in our writing classrooms. Millie Hizer—a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at Indiana University, Bloomington—will draw from pivotal scholarship at the intersection of Disability and Writing Studies to trace a non-linear history of disability and accessibility in the field of Rhetoric and Composition. Ultimately, she will reflect on the role this scholarship has played in her development as an emerging, multiply disabled teacher-scholar who plans to dedicate her career towards increasing access in both the writing classroom and higher education more broadly.

After the talk, participants will be trained on how to edit Wikipedia. After training, participants will have the opportunity to improve and create Wikipedia articles related to pivotal scholars and scholarship at the intersection of Disability and Writing Studies.


CCCCWI Office Hours

Mondays & Tuesdays OR by appointment

Register

If you would like to discuss something Wikipedia-related one-on-one or get help with a Wikipedia article you’re working on, please feel free to sign up for my office hours on Mondays and Tuesdays or email me to suggest another time (savannahcragin@berkeley.edu).