MA, Windsor
BA, British Columbia
Extension: 41035
Office: HH 224
Email:dolmage@uwaterloo.ca
For administrative inquiries:englishchair@uwaterloo.ca
Biography
I have a lovely partner named Heather, a dog named Bingo, and three hilarious childrennamed Vern, Francine, and Murphy. I am committed to disability rights in my scholarship,service, and teaching. My work brings together rhetoric, writing, disability studies, andcritical pedagogy. My first book, entitledDisability Rhetoric, was published with SyracuseUniversity Press in 2014. 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. I am the Founding Editor of the.
Selected Publications
Dolmage,Jay. “Disability Rhetorics.”The Cambridge Companion to Literature andDisability. Clare Barker and StuartMurray, Eds. London: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2017.
Dolmage,Jay. “Framing Disability, Fixing Race.”Disability Studies: An Introductory Reader.Lennard Davis, Ed. London: Routledge,2017.
Dolmage,Jay and Dale Jacobs.“MutableArticulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium.”Feats of Clay:Disability and Graphic Narrative. Ed. Chris Foss. Liverpool UniversityPress, 2016.
"Essential Functionaries" in "Faculty Members,Accommodation, and Access in Higher Education."Profession. December,2013.
Dolmage, Jay and Dale Jacobs. “Difficult Articulations: Comics Autobiography, Trauma andDisability.”The Future of Text and Image. Ofra Omahay and Lauren Walsh, eds.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2012. 69-92.
Reynolds, Nedra and Jay Dolmage.The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing,7thEdition. Boston: Bedford St, Martin’s Press, 2011.
Fellowships & awards
- Strategic Program Investment Grant for “Authors for Justice,” 2017-ongoing
- SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Insight Grant 4AFunding 2014-2017, “Academic Eugenics"
- University of ݮƵ Faculty Outstanding Performance Award, 2013.
- Disability History Association Best Article Award, 2013: "Disabled Upon Arrival: TheRhetorical Construction of Race and Disability at Ellis Island.”Cultural Critique77(Winter 2011). 24-69.
- Theresa J. Enos Award, best essay in the journalRhetoric Review,2011: “Octalog3: The Circulation of Discourse Through the Body.”
- SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Insight DevelopmentGrant 2011-2013: "A White Man's Country."
- Theresa J. Enos Award, best essay in the journalRhetoric Review, 2006: “BreatheUpon us an Even Flame: Hephaestus, History and the Body of Rhetoric.”RhetoricReview25.2(Spring 2006): 119-140.
Current research
I am currently beginning a large-scale collaborative project that seeks to empower survivors of institutionalization in Ontario to becomeauthors of twoprint books, to narrate theirexperiences and perspectives forposterity, and to contribute to ourongoing collective memory. Theproject has been awarded funding as part of a class action lawsuit settlementagainst theHuronia, Rideau and Southwestern Regional Centers, run by theOntario government for more thanone hundred years, from the late 1800s untilthe early 2000s.The settlementacknowledged thatmany if not all of those who were institutionalized wereabused or mistreated in some way, directlyand indirectly. Theproject seeks to offer these authors a highly accessible means of expressingthemselves,culminating in the creation oftwo books, to be published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, the publication andwide distribution of these books, and thepromise that their stories will be carried forward to futureaudiences throughthe archived digital media processes used to bring the books to fruition.
I am also working on an ongoing basis to develop teaching materials, resources, and ideasthat would make classrooms more accessible for all students.
Areas of graduate supervision
- Rhetorical theory & History
- Composition theory & Pedagogy
- Disability studies
- Higher education policy and practice
- Rhetorics of immigration