Margaret Price

Margaret Price, associate professor in the Department of English (Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy) and director of the Disability Studies Program, has received a prestigious 2020 – 2021 Fulbright Award to Sweden.

Price will research and complete her book Crip Spacetime: A Re-orientation to Disability Studies at the University of Gothenburg during August – December 2020. The book is under contract with Duke University Press and expected in 2022.

Crip spacetime is a concept developed by Price that describes how access should be conceptualized in university spaces in more sustainable ways. One of the primary shifts she advocates is moving away from an individual notion of “accommodating” disabilities, and toward an approach that emphasizes the connections between individuals, space, time, and relationships.

“I’m using a method that brings together discourse analysis, spatial analysis, and in-depth interviewing,” Price said. “My work in Sweden will be focused on Crip Spacetime’s remaining research question, which looks into ways that collectivity and a sense of accountability might fit into access.” Price noted that some findings from this study have been published in Disability Studies Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, and the anthology Precarious Rhetorics (OSU Press, 2018).

Price’s goals also include a collaboration with professor Stina Ericsson and assistant professor Per-Olof Hedvall on the project “Categorisation supporting the implementation of universal design in Sweden.” Funded by Sweden’s Innovation Agency Vinnova, this project investigates ways that disability and gender are categorized through signs and symbols.

For more information about the Fulbright Scholar Program, contact Joanna Kukielka-Blaser or visit fulbright.osu.edu.