About
Publications
Monograph
Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. (Recipient of the 2017 MLA First Book Prize, the 2019 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship, and the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award)
Journal articles
Cassandra Isn’t Doing the Robot: On Asexuality and Contagious Autism. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 50.3, 2020. 212-221.
Cripping Neutrality: Student Resistance, Pedagogical Audiences, and Teachers' Accommodations. Ho, Kerschbaum, Sanchez, & Yergeau. Pedagogy, 20.1. 2020. 127-139.
Empirical Failures of the Claim that Autistic People Lack a Theory of Mind. Gernsbacher & Yergeau. Archives of Scientific Psychology 7.1. 2019. 102-118.
Minding Theory of Mind. Huebner & Yergeau. Journal of Social Philosophy 48.3. September 2017.
e.pluribus plures: DMAC and its Keywords. Boyle, Vie, Micciche, Yergeau, Dadas, Morris, Smith, & Blankenship. Computers and Composition, 36. 1-15. June 2015.
Disability Hacktivism. In Hacking the Classroom: Eight Perspectives, curated by Sayers & 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. Yergeau et al. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 18.1. August 2013.
Autism and Rhetoric. Heilker & Yergeau. 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. Yergeau, Wozniak, & 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. Eyman, Ball, Boggs, Booher, Burnside, DeWitt, Dockter, Dolmage, Gardner, Georgi, Hinderliter, Ivey, Keller, Kelley, Kennedy, Kennison, McClanahan, Ries, Roberts, Schlosser, Stolley, Walter, Williams, Yergeau, and Zdenek. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 20.2. 2016.
Creating a Culture of Access in Composition Studies. Yergeau, Selfe, & Brewer. Composition Studies, 42.2. Fall 2014.
Book chapters
Wandering Rhetoric, Rhetoric Wandering. Making future matters. Eds. Wysocki & 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. Block, Kasnitz, Nishida, & Pollard. Springer: New York. pp. 83-95. 2015.
“Design” and “Production” [two micro-essays]. (2015). Keywords in Writing Studies. Eds. Heilker and Vandenberg. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.
Mine, Yours, and Ours: Developing Collaborative Relationships in the Academic Sphere. Blackburn & Yergeau. Metamorphosis: The Effects of Professional Development on Graduate Students. Eds. Andrea Davis and Suzanne Webb. Fountainhead Press. 2017.
Reference book
Brueggemann, Brewer, Hetrick, & Yergeau. SAGE Reference Series on Disability: Arts and Humanities. SAGE Publications. 2012.
Guidebook
Relationships and Sexuality: A Handbook for and by Autistic People. Eds. Ashkenazy & Yergeau. 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. Delagrange, Reider, Sorapure, and 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. E. 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.
