College of Humanities People
Melanie Yergeau, PhD Candidate
Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/
547 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: yergeau.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-1828
Office Hours:
Spring 2011: WF 11:30am-1:00pm, Denney 324 (in the DMP)
Personal URL(s):
and: http://kuiama.net
Education:
M.A. Writing, DePaul University; B.A. Writing, Geneva College; A.A. Liberal Arts, New Hampshire Technical Institute
General Background:
Melanie Yergeau is a Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy at The Ohio State University, where she also teaches courses in writing, digital media, and disability studies. A recipient of the 2009 Kairos Best Webtext Award and the 2008 Kairos/Bedford St. Martin's Graduate Student Award for Service, she researches how disability studies and digital technologies complicate our understandings of writing and communication.
She has published in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; Computers and Composition Online; Disability Studies Quarterly; and, as of May 2011, College English. She is also Editorial Design Director for Computers and Composition Digital Press and has worked as an associate editor for Computers and Composition: An International Journal.
Active in the neurodiversity movement, Melanie serves on the Board of Directors of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) and directs its Central Ohio/Ohio State chapter. She blogs semi-regularly at Aspie Rhetor.
Digital Media Studies
