Episode 7: Millie Hizer

Hey there! Welcome back to Tell Me More!, a podcast for amplifying the work of graduate students. In this episode, we're visited by Millie Hizer, who is starting her fourth year in the MA/PhD Program in the Department of English at Indiana University Bloomington this semester; her work focuses on disability studies, classical rhetoric, and writing pedagogy. Millie chats with us about a project she is developing that examines the rhetorical complexities of disclosure and nondisclosure via the affordances of Metis, or adaptive rhetorical cunning (a la Dolmage). Millie also talks about a course she is developing that has been approved for Spring 2022 on disability, visibility, and popular culture, and she reviews what a teaching philosophy can look like when it centralizes empathy and uptakes the affordances of disability theory as rhetorical practice. Millie has presented her work at the Society for Disability Studies conference at CCCC, and keep an eye out for her in the future!

Just a minor note, this was recorded near the time of the general rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout to the medical providers and essential staff before expanding to the general public. Also, just a note about pronunciation. As we go through graduate education and learn more, we realize that some words and phrases we say are actually different than their so-called proper pronunciations. So that's why you might hear Metis pronounced differently. Finally, Millie will be going through her comps this fall, so be sure to wish her good luck at her Twitter, @millieh27 or at her email, amhizer@indiana.edu. You can also find out more about her at her Academia.edu profile.

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Links to things discussed in this episode:

• Margaret Price: “Everyday Survival and Collective Action: What We Can Learn from Disabled Faculty about Access and Care.” (Presentation for the MSU Writing Center’s Accessibility Speaker Series)
• Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
• Lisa Blankenship’s Changing the Subject: A Theory of Rhetorical Empathy
• Eric Leake’s, “Writing Pedagogies of Empathy: As Rhetoric and Disposition"
• Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s “Becoming Disabled”
• Beth Haller’s Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media
• Lisa Eagen’s “I’m Not a Person with a Disability. I’m an Disabled Person”