M. Remi Yergeau
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Communication
| Department: | School of Journalism and Communication |
| Website: | https://remiyergeau.com |
Biography
M. Remi Yergeau (they/them/theirs) is an associate professor in Communication and Media Studies. Their scholarly interests include critical disability studies, rhetoric, digital studies, trans and queer studies, and neurodiversity.
Yergeau currently leads the Digital Accessible Futures Lab and serves as a co-PI of the DISCO Network, which receives funding support from the Mellon Foundation. Along with 13 colleagues from DISCO, Yergeau is a co-author of Technoskepticism (Stanford UP, February 2025).
Yergeau presently serves as a co-PI for Crip Computing: On Access Histories and Access Futures, which receives support from the Mozilla Foundation’s Responsible Computing Challenge. They are also a co-editor of Neurofutures along with Elizabeth Donaldson, Diana Paulin, and Ralph Savarese, which is forthcoming from MLA.
Yergeau is an autistic academic. Their knowledge of the autistic internet is informed by the scholarly and the personal: they once ran a neurodiversity blog, led a student chapter of an autistic-led org, and coordinated local protests. 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.
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, they are obsessed with donuts and the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).
Current Projects
Yergeau is currently at work on two single-authored book projects: 1) Crip Data, on disability, techno-rhetorics, and sociality, and 2) Intrusive Trans Thoughts, on trans-mad perseveration. They are also working on a co-authored book project with V. Jo Hsu, tentatively titled TERF: Transantagonistic Enthymemes and Rhetorical Fallacies.
Selected Publications
Books
DISCO Network. (2025). Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal. Stanford University Press.
Yergeau, M. (2017). Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Articles and book chapters
Yergeau, M.R. (2023). “Perseverative Composing / Composing Perseveration.” In Crip Authorship, eds. Mara Mills & Rebecca Sanchez. NYU Press.
Maier, S., Hsu, J.V., Cedillo, C., & Yergeau, M.R. (2020). “Get The Frac In: A (Trans)(crip)t Many-festo.” Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition. https://cfshrc.org/article/get-the-frac-in-or-the-fractal-many-festo-a-transcript
Yergeau, M. (2020). “Cassandra Isn’t Doing the Robot: On Risky Rhetorics and Contagious Autism.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 50.3. 212-221.
Ho, A.B., Kerschbaum, S., Sanchez, R. , & Yergeau, M. (2020). “Cripping Neutrality: Student Resistance, Pedagogical Audiences, and Teachers’ Accommodations.” Pedagogy, 20.1. 127-139.