Stephanie L. Kerschbaum

On Rhetorical Agency and Disclosing Disability in Academic Writing

Disability disclosures in academic scholarship raise questions about possibilities of rhetorical agency. This article engages performances of disability disclosure and recent theories of rhetorical agency to show such disclosures as the culmination of recurring processes in which past experiences are brought to bear on a present moment as people recognize opportune moments for action.

Disability: Representation, Disclosure, Access, and Interdependence

We must begin with representational (dis)claimers. We are deaf. Which is to say, in a way, that we are disabled. But it is also to say, in a contradictory way, that we are not (disabled)—that we occupy a space curiously related to disability. Although it is not necessarily common public knowledge, those who identify as “deaf” or “disabled” often understand that the two identities are not parallel or mutually inclusive of each other.

Disability Rhetoric, Jay Timothy Dolmage

Jay Dolmage in Disability Rhetoric relentlessly asserts disability as a powerful and dynamic rhetorical force. As I read, I found that message sinking its way into my body as I moved through Dolmag...