M. Remi Yergeau

M. Remi Yergeau
Born1984 (age 39–40)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationAssistant professor
Academic background
Education
ThesisDisabling Composition: Toward a 21st-Century, Synaesthetic Theory of Writing (2011)
Doctoral advisor
Other advisorsH. Lewis Ulman
Academic work
DisciplineRhetoric and Composition
Sub-disciplineDisability Studies
Notable worksAuthoring Autism

M. Remi Yergeau (formerly Melanie Yergeau, born 1984)[1] is an American academic in the fields of rhetoric and writing studies, digital studies, queer rhetoric, disability studies, and theories of mind. As of 2024, Yergeau is an Arthur F. Thurnau associate professor of Digital Studies and English at the University of Michigan.

Yergeau received a Bachelor of Arts in writing from Geneva College in 2005, a Master of Arts in writing from DePaul University in 2007, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in English from the Ohio State University in 2011.[2] After receiving their Ph.D., Yergeau became an assistant professor with the Department of English at the University of Michigan. They were promoted to associate professor in 2017.[2]

Yergeau published their first book, Authoring Autism, in 2018.[3] The book won the 2017 Modern Language Association First Book Prize,[4] the 2019 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award, and the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award.[5] Further, the book has been reviewed in several academic and public venues, including American Literature,[6] Disability & Society,[7] Feminist Formations,[8] GLQ,[9] the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies,[10] the Los Angeles Review of Books,[11] philoSOPHIA,[12] Rhetoric Society Quarterly,[13] and Public Books.[14]

Yergeau is autistic and uses they/them pronouns.[15]

  1. ^ "Authoring autism : on rhetoric and neurological queerness / M. Remi Yergeau". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  2. ^ a b "melanie yergeau" (PDF). University of Michigan. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  3. ^ McClintick, Jay (2019-06-07). "Can Rhetoric Survive a Neuroqueer Future? A Review of M. Remi Yergeau's Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness". enculturation. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  4. ^ Krebs, Paula M. (2018-12-05). "MLA Prize for a First Book Awarded to Amanda Jo Goldstein for Sweet Science and to Melanie Yergeau for Authoring Autism; Corey McEleney and Britt Rusert to Receive Honorable Mentions" (PDF). Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
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  6. ^ Jenson, Deborah (2020-03-01). "See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English ProfessorAuthoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness". American Literature. 92 (1): 183–185. doi:10.1215/00029831-8056700. ISSN 0002-9831.
  7. ^ Williams, Anna (2018-07-03). "Authoring autism: on rhetoric and neurological queerness: Authoring autism: on rhetoric and neurological queerness, by Melanie Yergeau, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2017, 312 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-82-237020-8, $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-82-237011-6". Disability & Society. 33 (6): 996–997. doi:10.1080/09687599.2018.1457500. ISSN 0968-7599.
  8. ^ Kizer, Sam (Winter 2020). "Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by M. Remi Yergeau (review)". Feminist Formations. 32 (3). Baltimore: 183–185. doi:10.1353/ff.2020.0050. ProQuest 2474491651 – via ProQuest.
  9. ^ Mullaney, Clare (2020-04-01). "Fucking with Rhetoric". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 26 (2): 355–357. doi:10.1215/10642684-8141942. ISSN 1064-2684.
  10. ^ Karmiris, Maria (2019). "Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Melanie Yergeau (review)". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 13 (4): 483–486. doi:10.3828/jlcds.2019.36. ISSN 1757-6466.
  11. ^ Wing, Travis Chi Lau (2019-05-02). "The Poetics of Autism". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  12. ^ Parks, Alison (2021). "Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University by Matt Brim, and: Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare, and: Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by M. Remi Yergeau (review)". PhiloSOPHIA. 11 (1): 250–257. doi:10.1353/phi.2021.0040. ISSN 2155-0905 – via Project MUSE.
  13. ^ Johnson, Jenell (2021-01-01). "Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness: by M. Remi Yergeau, Durham, NC, Duke UP, 2018, 312 pp., $27.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8223-7020-8". Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 51 (1): 71–72. doi:10.1080/02773945.2020.1851117. ISSN 0277-3945.
  14. ^ Galvin, Annie (2019-09-23). "Autism Aesthetics". Public Books. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  15. ^ "About". m. remi yergeau. Retrieved 2024-02-06.