Disability studies (DS) has reached a point that Margaret Price calls a “crisis of precar- ity”—a state in which neoliberal logics of wealth, privilege, and power are replicated within DS, doing material violence to some members of the discipline, while the disci- pline itself continues to flourish. Price outlines the ways DS has reached this crisis of precarity, and in response, offers a different way of thinking about disability, one that shifts emphasis from the individual bodies of disabled people to the state of the field and the mechanisms of higher education itself. To illustrate this theory, she presents findings from the ongoing Disabled Faculty Study, which includes a survey and inter- views with disabled faculty from across the U.S. and other countries.

Margaret Price is an associate professor of English at The Ohio State University, spe- cializing 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 CCCC. Other writing appears in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy; Hypatia; Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture; Creative Nonfiction; College Composition and Communication; Profession; Disability Studies Quarterly; and other venues. She is now at work on a book titled Crip Space- time, which reports on findings from a study of disabled faculty in higher education. Margaret is a near-constant knitter and has a five-pound dog named Ivy.

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