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), as well as an Honorable Mention for the Research Impact Award from the Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC). Their first book, Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life (University of Michigan Press, 2011), won the Outstanding Book Award from the CCCC. Price is co-PI of the Transformative Access Project and received a 2020 Fulbright Research Award. They are an avid knitter and inline skater.

Selected Publications

• Price, Margaret. “Access Priming.” Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing. Lauren Guilmette and Ada S. Jaarsma, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Forthcoming in 2026.

• Guadrón, Melissa, Addison Koneval, and Margaret Price. “Quiet Rooms in Higher Education: At the Intersection of Scarcity and Abundance.” Conference on College Composition and Communication Companion Publication. Ed. Timothy Oleksiak, Jamila M. Kareem, Amy J. Lueck, Ligia A. Mihut. Champaign, IL: NCTE, 2024. 21-28.

• Price, Margaret. “Access Invocation.” An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping. Ed. Chris Hoff, Erin Segal, Julie Cho. Washington, DC: Thick Press, 2024. 23-25.
• Price, Margaret. “In Service Of: Thoughts on Claiming Disability Justice.” Disability Visibility Project. Ed. Alice Wong. June 1, 2024.
• Hedvall, Per-Olof, Margaret Price, Johnna Keller, and Stina Ericsson. “Towards Third-generation Universal Design: Exploring Nonclusive Design.” Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 297 (2022): 85-92.
• (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.