Associate Professor
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Publications
Monograph
Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.
Journal articles
Cripping Neutrality: Student Resistance, Pedagogical Audiences, and Teachers' Accommodations. Ai Binh Ho, Stephanie Kerschbaum, Rebecca Sanchez, & Melanie Yergeau. Pedagogy, 20.1. 2020. 127-139.
Empirical Failures of the Claim that Autistic People Lack a Theory of Mind. Morton Gernsbacher & Melanie Yergeau. Archives of Scientific Psychology 7.1. 2019. 102-118.
Minding Theory of Mind. Bryce Huebner & Melanie Yergeau. Journal of Social Philosophy 48.3. September 2017.
e.pluribus plures: DMAC and its Keywords. Casey Boyle, Stephanie Vie, Laura Micciche, Melanie Yergeau, Caroline Dadas, Janine Morris, Christian Smith, & Lisa Blankenship. Computers and Composition, 36. 1-15. June 2015.
Disability Hacktivism. In Hacking the Classroom: Eight Perspectives, curated by Jentery Sayers & Mary Hocks. Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2014.
Clinically Significant Disturbance: On Theorists Who Theorize Theory of Mind. Disability Studies Quarterly 33.4. October 2013. (Received Honorable Mention for the 2015 Kathleen Ethel Welch Outstanding Article Award)
Multimodality in Motion: Disability and Kairotic Spaces. With Elizabeth Brewer et al. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 18.1. August 2013.
Autism and Rhetoric. With Paul Heilker. College English 73.5. May 2011.
Circle Wars: Reshaping the Typical Autism Essay. Disability Studies Quarterly 30.1. Winter 2010.
aut(hored)ism. Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2009. (Received Honorable Mention for the 2010 Kairos Best Webtext Award)
Expanding the Space of f2f: Writing Centers and Audio-Visual-Textual Conferencing. With Kathryn Wozniak and Peter Vandenberg. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 13.1. Fall 2008. (Winner of the 2009 Kairos Best Webtext Award)
Invited essays
Creating a Culture of Access in Writing Program Administration [Saturday plenary address]. WPA: Writing Program Administration 40.1. Fall 2016, 155-165.
Access/ibility: Access and Usability for Digital Publishing. Douglas Eyman, Cheryl E. Ball, Jeremy Boggs, Amanda K. Booher, Elkie Burnside, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Jason Dockter, Jay Dolmage, Traci Gardner, Sara Georgi, Hal Hinderliter, Susan Ivey, Michael Keller, Rachael Kelley, Sarah Kennedy, Rebecca Kennison, Pamela McClanahan, Alex Ries, Kassi Roberts, Melanie Schlosser, Karl Stolley, John Paul Walter, George H. Williams, Melanie Yergeau, and Sean Zdenek. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 20.2. 2016.
Creating a Culture of Access in Composition Studies. With Cynthia L. Selfe & Elizabeth Brewer. Composition Studies, 42.2. Fall 2014.
Book chapters
Wandering Rhetoric, Rhetoric Wandering. Making future matters. Eds. Rick Wysocki & Mary P. Sheridan. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. 2018.
Occupying Autism: Rhetoric, Involuntarity, and the Meaning of Autistic Lives. Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability. Eds. Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, & Nick Pollard. Springer: New York. pp. 83-95. 2015.
“Design” and “Production” [two micro-essays]. (2015). Keywords in Writing Studies. Eds. Paul Heilker and Peter Vandenberg. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.
Mine, Yours, and Ours: Developing Collaborative Relationships in the Academic Sphere. With Lorelei Blackburn. Metamorphosis: The Effects of Professional Development on Graduate Students. Eds. Andrea Davis and Suzanne Webb. Fountainhead Press. 2017.
Reference book
Co-author with Brenda Brueggemann, Elizabeth Brewer, & Nicholas Hetrick. SAGE Reference Series on Disability: Arts and Humanities. SAGE Publications. 2012.
Guidebook
Relationships and Sexuality: A Handbook for and by Autistic People. Editor with Elesia Ashkenazy. Sponsored by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, Autism NOW, and The Arc. 2013.
Interviews
Opening an Invitation to Remix: Interviews with Kairos Best Webtext Winners. Susan Delagrange, David Reider, Madeleine Sorapure, and Melanie Yergeau. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 20.2. 2016.
Interviews with Melanie Yergeau, Beth Ferri, and Nirmala Erevelles. Interviews conducted by Allison Hitt and Bre Garrett. Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning, 14.1. 2014. 15-39.
Other writing
Sustaining Your Group + What Are Schools Required to Do Under the Law. Empowering Disabled Leaders: A Handbook. Ed. Elesia Ashkenazy. Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation / Autistic Self Advocacy Network. 2013.
Maybe You’ll Grow Out of It. Stay Solid! A Radical Handbook for Youth. Ed. Matt Hern. AK Press. 2013.
Socializing Through Silence. Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking. Ed. Julia Bascom. The Autistic Press/Autistic Self Advocacy Network. 2012.
