Research

All of my research is centered in equity, mostly within my sub-discipline of disability studies in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies. I work to push the boundaries of what counts as “disability work.” Selected publications are below.

Selected Articles:

This is the logo for Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition

Beyond Choice: Infertility and/as Disability.” Peitho, vol. 26, no. 4, 2024, pp. 55-85. (PDF version). 


The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics (green background)

Counting Grief, Or, It Takes a Sabbatical to Write a Eulogy.” Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, special issue on Carework and Writing, vol. 6, no 2, 2022, np.




Negotiating Disability
Disclosure and Higher Education
Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Laura T. Eisenman, and James M. Jones, Editors

“Diagnosing Disability, Disease, and Disorder Online: Disclosure, Dismay, and Student Research.” Negotiating Disability: Disclosure and Higher Education. Eds. Stephanie Kerschbaum, Laura Eisenman, and James Jones. University of Michigan, 2017.


praxis: A Writing Center Journal (the p in praxis is orange)

Productive Chaos: Disability, Advising, and the Writing Process.” With Griffin Keedy. PraxisA Writing Center Journal 14.1 (2016): 21-26.


WPA: Writing Program Administration
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Disabling Writing Program Administration.” Writing Program Administration 38.2 (Spring 2015): 32-55. Received the Kenneth Bruffee Award. Reprinted in Landmark Essays In Writing Program Administration.


Journal of Medical Humanities
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Hysterical Again: The Gastrointestinal Woman in Medical Discourse.” Journal of Medical Humanities 34.1(March 2013): 33-57.


Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

Seeing What We Know: Disability and Theories of Metaphor.” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 4.1 (2010): 33-54.


Rhetoric Review

Rhetorical Hiccups: Disability Disclosure in Letters of Recommendation.” Rhetoric Review 28.2 (April 2009): 185-204.