Date of Award
May 2015
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
English
First Advisor
Anne F. Wysocki
Committee Members
Dennis Lynch, Patricia Mayes, S. Scott Graham, Nancy Rice
Keywords
Accommodation, Composition, Disability, Rhetoric
Abstract
Combining approaches from composition studies, legal studies, and disability studies, this project theorizes a new model of accommodation in composition (and beyond): "complex accommodation." Complex accommodation frames disability as critical kairos; in other words, I argue that the encounter of disability and attendant necessity for accommodation creates a moment of practical and theoretical dissonance in composition that may reveal under-critiqued norms in individual classrooms, writing programs, and the field as a whole. This project provides the theoretical grounding and articulation of complex accommodation while also creating practical accommodational heuristics for instructors and writing programs.
Recommended Citation
Pacton, Adam Matthew, "Intertheory: Disability, Accommodation, and the Writing of Composition" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 907.
https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/907