Contributors

Felicita Arzu-Carmichael (she/her) is an assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at Oakland University, where she teaches courses in race and professional writing, issues in writing studies, and first-year writing. She also serves as the associate director of the first-year writing program and president of the International Employee Resource Group at Oakland University. Felicita is an associate editor of College English. Her scholarly interests include online literacy, composition theory and pedagogy, and race, social justice, and inclusion. Her work has appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly, Writing Program Administration, Composition Studies, and other journals.

Lisanne Binhammer (she/her) is an educator, researcher, and designer who received her MA in anthropology with a specialization in digital humanities from Carleton University. Her research looked at the meta- eugenic implications of virtual reality applications designed for autistic children. She previously taught as an instructor in the design department at York University and has taught product design at numerous private organizations. Lisanne was a speaker at the 2023 Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity and has worked as a product designer for various big tech (and small tech) organizations for well over a decade.

Fiona N. Cheuk is a PhD candidate in social justice education at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Their work examines the politics of appearances and disappearances in state interpretations of disabled people’s stories in disability policy- making processes in Canada. They teach courses at the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University and work as an EDI consultant on issues in education and employment. Their latest project involves bringing a disability justice perspective on access into architecture pedagogical practices with the University of Waterloo.

Mina Chun is an assistant professor in the Department of Learning and Teaching at California Lutheran University. Mina’s research explores ways to promote access, equity, and inclusion for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities in the current diverse society.

Kimberlee Collins is a doctoral candidate at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Collins’s research, rooted in critical disability studies and health studies, draws from critical posthumanism to examine emotional responses in relation to ecological change and climate change.

Jay Dolmage is committed to disability justice in his scholarship, service, and teaching. His work brings together rhetoric, writing, disability studies, and critical pedagogy. His first book, entitled Disability Rhetoric, was published in 2014; Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education was published in 2017; and Disabled upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability was published in 2018. He is the founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.

Elena G. Garcia is an assistant professor and the director of the writing program for the English department at the University of Detroit Mercy. Her research interests vary from considering intersections of identity and academic spaces to technical writing practices in industrial workplaces to writing practices and processes. In all of this, she focuses on how individuals engage with the texts, spaces, and cultures around them.

Esther Ignagni is an associate professor in the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has taught online for eighteen years, working primarily with students who have been disenfranchised with respect to the education system. After two terms of administration, she looks forward to opening up a new crip program of research.

Donna Jeffery is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria. Jeffery’s research interests focus on critical race theory, social work education and the production of professional subjects, and environmental justice.

Erika Johnson is the McNair Scholars Program director at Texas Woman’s University. Although Erika is currently in an administrative role, her research remains focused on basic writing, identity construction, literacies, critical discourse analysis, gender studies, and womanist pedagogy.

Chelsea Temple Jones is an associate professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University. She has been teaching online for a decade at various institutions in Canada. Her research areas include journalism and critical disability studies, crip theory, critical digital pedagogy, and access as aesthetic. She is a co-producer and co-host of Podagogies: A Teaching and Learning Podcast with Curtis Maloley.

Curtis Maloley is the director of Teaching Development and Digital Learning in the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Toronto Metropolitan University. He has been teaching at Toronto Metropolitan University for over a decade in the RTA School of Media, the Department of Sociology, and the Chang School. He is a co-producer and co-host of Podagogies: A Teaching and Learning Podcast with Chelsea Temple Jones.

Mary McCall is an associate professor of English at North Dakota State University. Her research focuses on professional and technical writing, writing across the curriculum, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Her work has appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, and elsewhere.

Elizabeth Mohler is a doctoral student in the Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Program, Occupational Science Field, at Western University. Her work uses critical discourse analysis to explore how direct funding attendant service policies shape who can, and cannot, access services. Elizabeth is the vice-president of Citizens with Disabilities and a researcher with the National Educational Association of Disabled Students. She is also an active lecturer, podcaster, and disability justice advocate.

Jenna Reid (she/her) is the current artistic director at Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture. Jenna is a fibre artist who works primarily with the practices of quilting, natural dyes, and the use of textiles as a way to engage with activist-based aesthetics. Her studio work explores interinstitutional violence informed by the histories of queer, feminist, Deaf, disability, and mad movement organizing. With a studio-based PhD in critical disability studies at York University, Jenna specializes in the emergent field of mad studies.

Fady Shanouda (he/him) is an assistant professor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University. His scholarly contributions lie at the theoretical and pedagogical intersections of disability, mad, and fat studies and include socio-historical examinations that surface the interconnections of colonialism, racism, ableism, sanism, and fatphobia in and beyond higher education. More about his research and writing can be found at www.fadyshanouda.com.

Kristin Smith is an associate professor in the School of Social Work, Toronto Metropolitan University. Smith’s interests include critical analyses of neo-liberalism in health and social services and online education and critical pedagogy.

Hannah L. Stevens is a PhD candidate in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric program at Utah State University. She brings to her PhD work a background in feminist analysis layered onto her work with public policy along with considerations of race, class, disability, and other factors. Her most recent research investigates and identifies specific publishing policy documentation that allows for (or perhaps veils) oppressive and discriminatory systems that work specifically against the careers and overall advancement of multiply marginalized and under-represented authors and scholars.

Jessica Vorstermans is a white settler scholar living, working, and researching from/on Treaty 13 lands and is committed to centring reciprocity. She is an assistant professor at York University in critical disability studies. Her research makes critical interventions in the field of international service learning, engaging plural ideas of human rights, disability, and equity.

Nathan Whitlock is a full-time professor in the Faculty of Media and Creative Arts at Humber College in Toronto. He is the program coordinator of Humber’s postgraduate Creative Book Publishing program and the author of two books: A Week of This (ECW Press, 2008) and Congratulations on Everything (ECW Press, 2016). His writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Best Canadian Essays, and elsewhere.

Anne Zbitnew is a full-time professor in the Faculty of Media and Creative Arts at Humber College in Toronto. She is the project lead for Making Accessible Media, an accessible, open-access, online course at Humber College. Anne is the principal investigator of a research project in partnership with Tangled Art + Disability, Accessibility Toolkit: A Guide to Making Art and Performance Spaces Inclusive and Accessible, and a co-investigator of a research project in partnership with Among Friends Community Mental Health Program, Art in Access: Social Innovation and Community Development through Arts Education.