Margaret Price
Associate Professor and Director of Disability Studies Program
She/her/hers
509 Denney Hall
164 Annie & John Glenn Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210
Areas of Expertise
- Rhetoric, composition and literacy
- Disability studies
- Research methodologies
Education
- PhD, University of Massachusetts
- MFA, University of Michigan
- BA, Amherst College
Margaret Price is a genderqueer femme and scholar of rhetoric, disability studies, and qualitative methods. Her book Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024) won the 2024 Alison Piepmeier Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). Her first book, Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life (University of Michigan Press, 2011), won the Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC). Price is co-PI of the Transformative Access Project and received a 2020 Fulbright Research Award. She is an avid knitter and inline skater.
Selected Publications
- (With Erin Kathleen Bahl). “The Rhetoric of Description: Embodiment, Power, and Playfulness in Representations of the Visual.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 26, no. 2, Jan. 2022. Winner of the 2023 Best Webtext Award from Kairos.
- “Time Harms: Disabled Faculty Navigating the Accommodations Loop.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 120, no. 2, 2021, pp. 257-277.
- (With Andrew Holladay). “Mediating Minds: Disability Studies and the Rhetoric of Mental Health.” In Lisa Melonçon et al., Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2020, pp. 33-51.
- “The Precarity of Disability/Studies in Academe.” Precarious Rhetorics. Ed. Wendy Hesford, Adela Licona, Christa Teston. Series in New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality, The Ohio State University Press, 2018, pp. 191-211.
- “What Is a Service Animal? A Careful Rethinking.” Review of Disability Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, 2017.
- (With Mark S. Salzer, Amber M. O’Shea, and Stephanie L. Kerschbaum.) “Disclosure of Mental Disability by College and University Faculty: The Negotiation of Accommodations, Supports, and Barriers.” Disability Studies Quarterly vol. 37, no. 2, 2017.
- (With Stephanie L. Kerschbaum.) “Stories of Methodology: Interviewing Sideways, Crooked, and Crip.” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies vol. 5, no. 3, 2016.
- “Un/Shared Space: The Dilemma of Inclusive Architecture.” Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader. Ed. Jos Boys. London/New York: Routledge, 2017. pp. 155-172.
- (With Victor Del Hierro and Daisy Levy.) “We Are Here: Negotiating Difference and Alliance in Spaces of Cultural Rhetorics.” enculturation vol. 21, 20 April 2016.