Student Disability Commission

Madness in Higher Education: An Interview with Margaret Price

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Event Recording:

Join the SDC and the D Center in welcoming Dr. Margaret Price, author of “Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life”, and associate professor of English at Ohio State University, to our (virtual) campus! Our event will be hosted by UW Disability Studies Affiliate and Mad/Mentally Ill, Chronically Ill Activist- Ashley Cowan D’Ambrosio, who will lead an interview with Dr. Price, to explore the current landscape in Higher Education for students and faculty with mental illness. Captions are available, and ASL interpreters should be visible. If you have any other access needs that are not met here, please email asuwsdc1@uw.edu.

Speaker Information:

tan background with blue triangle in upper right corner. Blue, orange and black text reads "Meet our Guest: Margaret Price, PhD. She is a white, genderqueer, femme and disabled. An Associate professor of English at the Ohio State University, specializing in disability studies and rhetoric/composition/literacy. Her book Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life (University of Michigan Press) won the Outstanding Book Award from National Council on Teachers of English. Katie Rose Guest Pryal in the Chronical of Higher Education has called Mad at School "the book about mental health and higher education."" In the bottom right corner, a grey close up picture of a person smiling with short curly hair, wearing glasses, and a sweater.
tan background with orange triangle in upper right corner. Blue, orange and black text reads "Meet our Host: Ashley Cowan D'Ambrosio. CEO & Founder, Crip Riot. cripriot.com. A guest lecturer in the University of Washington College of Education and an Affiliate of the University of Washington Disability Studies Program. A student and researcher pursuing a MA in Disability Studies from the City University of New York (CUNY). A white, non-traditional, first-gen, chronically-ill, mad/mentally-ill high school dropout and disabled activist." In the bottom right corner, a grey close up picture of a person smiling with long dark hair wearing a blouse. In the bottom left corner, 'madness in higher education' logo