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In Conversation with Dr. Jay Timothy Dolmage, Author of Academic Ableism

In Conversation with Dr. Jay Timothy Dolmage, Author of Academic Ableism

February 9, 2026
11:00am - 12:00pm
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Dolmage is committed to disability rights in his scholarship, service, and teaching. His work brings together rhetoric, writing, disability studies, and critical pedagogy. His first book, entitled Disability Rhetoric, was published with Syracuse University Press in 2014. Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education was published with Michigan University Press in 2017 and is available in an open-access version online. Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability was published in 2018 with Ohio State University Press. He is the Founding Editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.