Principal Investigator
M. Remi Yergeau (they/them/theirs) is a Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Communication and associate professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University. They currently run the Digital Accessible Futures Lab as a part of the DISCO Network. Remi’s scholarly interests include rhetoric & communication, digital studies, queer rhetorics, disability studies, and neurodiversity. Their 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. They are currently at work on a second book project on disability, techno-rhetorics, and sociality, tentatively titled Crip Data.
