Rhetorician Spotlight: Jay Dolmage
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This document provides biographical information about Jay Dolmage, a professor who focuses on disability studies and rhetoric. It summarizes some classical and modern definitions of rhetoric. Dolmage argues that rhetoric can help disability studies understand how power circulates through discourse to shape perceptions of disabled bodies. He uses rhetoric to advocate for more accessible education and calls for a critical alliance between disability studies and rhetoric to address contemporary issues.
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- 2. TODAY’S READING DISABILITY RHETORIC, CH. 1, BY JAY DOLMAGE
- 3. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Assistant Professor of English – University of Waterloo Focuses his work on disability studies – founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies Author of two books – Disability Rhetoric (2014) & Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability (2018)
- 4. RHETORIC THROUGH THE YEARS Some Classical Definitions The art of persuasion (Aristotle) A good man speaking well (Quintilian) Speech designed to persuade (Cicero) More Recent Definitions A mode of altering reality […] by the creation of discourse which changes reality through the mediation of thought and action (Lloyd Bitzer) The art, practice, and study of human communication (Andrea Lunsford) The study of the ways that power circulates through discourse (Dolmage)
- 5. RHETORIC & DISCOURSE DISCOURSE IS (LOOSELY DEFINED AS) COMMUNICATION THAT OCCURS AS A CONVERSATION
- 6. DOLMAGE WRITES… “I will argue for a critical alliance between disability studies and rhetoric. Disability studies would mandate that rhetoricians pay close attention to embodied difference; in return, rhetorical approaches would give disability studies practitioners means of understanding the debates that in part shape these bodies.” Disability Rhetoric (2014)
- 7. PROBLEMS WITH ACCESSIBILITY “At the very best, we get digital ‘ramps’ that actually cost people with disabilities, or that make learning much more difficult for them -- these are ramps in the back door of higher education, not in the front door.” –Jay Dolmage, in a 2017 email interview with Inside Higher Ed.
- 8. HOW CAN RHETORIC HELP? “the study of the ways that power circulates through discourse” (Dolmage)
- 9. IN OTHER WORDS… Rhetoric can help us understand the issues we face in modern society by helping us navigate the discourse circulating the public sphere According to Dolmage, disability studies is “uniquely rhetorical”
- 10. THEREFORE… Rhetoric is a way of entering a conversation (in this case, a conversation surrounding disability studies). By entering the conversation, we can contribute to contemporary issues in this field of study.
- 11. APPLIED RHETORIC Dolmage uses rhetoric… as a way to enter a conversation to understand power relations to advocate for equity, specifically as it pertains to accessibility How could we use rhetoric in this way? What conversations could we enter? What new understandings about a social/cultural issue might we gain by applying rhetoric?