Dr. Remi Yergeau

Biography

Remi Yergeau is an Associate Professor at Carleton University specializing in Communication and Media Studies. Their research interests encompass critical disability studies, rhetoric, digital studies, trans queer studies, and neurodiversity. They lead the Digital Accessible Futures Lab and are co-principal investigator for the DISCO Network, which has received support from the Mellon Foundation. Yergeau is a co-author of the forthcoming book 'Technoskepticism' and serves as co-principal investigator for the project 'Crip Computing: On Access Histories and Access Futures'. They are also a co-editor of the book 'Neurofutures'. Yergeau, who identifies as an autistic academic, has previously written a neurodiversity blog and has been actively involved in advocacy for autistic communities. Their book, 'Authoring Autism: Rhetoric Neurological Queerness', won the 2017 Modern Language Association Book Prize, the 2019 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship, and the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award. Yergeau is currently working on several book projects, including explorations of disability, techno-rhetorics, and trans perspectives.

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