Learn from emerging scholars about navigating interdisciplinary work as a new faculty member, how to think through disability disclosure and pandemic burnout, as well as advice about access advocacy and crip mentoring.

Panelists:
Dr. Sara M. Acevedo, Assistant Professor in Disability Studies (She/her)
Dr. Acevedo is an Autistic Mestiza educator and scholar-activist born and raised in Colombia. Her work her work is grounded in anti-racist, anti-ableist, decolonial, anti-capitalist, disability justice praxis.
Crystal Yin Lie, Assistant Professor at California State University Long Beach (she/her/hers)
Crystal Yin Lie received her PhD in English Language & Literature with a graduate certificate in Science, Technology, & Society from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of disability studies, contemporary literature, and visual culture. She is working toward a book project on women’s life writing on dementia and the memory of historical trauma. She currently teaches courses in Health Humanities, Literature & Medicine, and Comics & Graphic Narratives.
Vyshali Manivannan, Lecturer of Writing Studies and Director of the Pleasantville Writing-Enhanced Courses Program, Dept. of Writing & Cultural Studies at Pace University - Pleasantville (she/her/hers)
Vyshali Manivannan is an interdisciplinary creative-critical scholar who has written extensively about the experience of non-apparent chronic pain and about the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. Her scholarship has appeared in publications such as the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Digital Health, Fibreculture, and Enculturation, and her creative work has been featured in literary journals like Fourth Genre, The Paris Review, Consequence, and Black Clock. She serves as a Writing Studies Lecturer at Pace University and is a Ph.D. candidate in Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. She also holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia University and a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College.
Rua M. Williams, Assistant Professor Purdue University (They/Them)
Rua M. Williams is an Assistant Professor in the User Experience Design program at Purdue University. They study interactions between technology design, computing research practices, and Disability Justice. Common approaches to technology and service design for marginalized people tend to naturalize existing inequities, exacerbating injustice even while they attempt to ameliorate it. Dr. Williams deploys Feminist and Anti-Racist approaches to Technoscience, Critical disability Studies, and Science and Technology Studies in the design and evaluation of technological systems to simultaneously illustrate injustice in technology as well as marginalized users’ own practices of resistance through those same technologies.

Accessibility: CART will be provided. Reach out to ericcman@umich.edu for questions about accommodations.