Welcome! I am an Arthur F. Thurnau associate professor of Digital Studies and English at the University of Michigan. I also direct the Digital Accessible Futures Lab as a part of the DISCO Network, which is funded by the Mellon Foundation.

I’m an autistic academic, and my scholarly interests include rhetoric & writing studies, digital studies, queer rhetorics, disability studies, and theories of mind. My book, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Duke UP), is a winner of the 2017 Modern Language Association First Book Prize, the 2019 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship, and the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award. I am currently at work on a second book project on disability, techno-rhetorics, and sociality, tentatively titled Crip Data.

My other publications can be found in Rhetoric Society QuarterlyPedagogy, Journal of Social Philosophy, Kairos, Disability Studies Quarterly, and College English, among other places.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I am an avid fan of the Electric Light Orchestra. If there’s any way for me to mention ELO in conversation — however un/naturally — I will do it. Hold on tight!