PhD, Miami University of Ohio
MA, Windsor
BA, British Columbia
Extension: 41035
Office: HH 224
Email: dolmage@uwaterloo.ca
Biography
I have a lovely partner named Heather, a dog named Bingo, and three hilarious children named Vern, Francine, and Murphy. I am committed to disability rights in my scholarship, service, and teaching. My work brings together rhetoric, writing, disability studies, and critical pedagogy. My first book, entitled Disability Rhetoric, was published with Syracuse University Press in 2014. Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education 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 Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
Recent Publications
Dolmage, Jay and Dale Jacobs. “Disability Rhetorics, Autobiographical Comics, and the Case of David Smalls’ Stitches.” Routledge Handbook of Critical Disability Studies. Ed. Katie Ellis. Routledge, 2024.
Dolmage, Jay. “Disability in Dialogue: A Heteroglossary.” Disability in Dialogue. Eds. Jessica M.F. Hughes and Mariaelena Bartesaghi. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2023. 199-208.
Dolmage, Jay. “Education and Eugenics.” Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice, 2023.
Dolmage, Jay. “On Digital Academic Publishing, Accessibility, and Rhetorical Invention.” Doing Digital Visual Studies: One Image, Multiple Methodologies, Eds. Laurie E. Gries and Blake Hallinan. Computers in Composition Digital Press, 2022.
Dolmage, Jay. “What is Metis?” Disability Studies Quarterly 40.1 (2020): n.p.
Honours & Awards
William A. Kaplin Award for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy Scholarship, Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law & Policy, February 2024.
Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision, University of Waterloo, 2022.
President’s Excellence in Research Award, University of Waterloo, 2021.
Lecturers’ Appreciation Award, University of Waterloo Faculty Association, 2021.
Elected to the Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, 2020.
Grants
Primary Investigator, SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant: Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. 2019-2022; 2022-2025; 2025-2028.
Primary Investigator, SSHRC Insight Grant: “Academic Eugenics.” 2019-2026. $86,217.
Primary Investigator, Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services: Investing in Justice Fund. “Authors for Justice.”
Areas of graduate supervision
- Rhetorical theory & History
- Composition theory & Pedagogy
- Disability studies
- Higher education policy and practice
- Rhetorics of immigration