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Melanie Yergeau is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan. Her academic interests include digital media studies and disability studies, and, more specifically, what the neurodiversity movement has to teach us about learning, teaching, writing, difference, and being. She received the 2011 Hugh Burns Dissertation Award, and is currently working on a book project about autism and embodied authorship.

Melanie serves as a board chair of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), a nonprofit organization run for and by individuals on the autism spectrum, and she is also on the board of the Autism National Committee (also known as AutCom). Melanie blogs semi-regularly on matters of rhetoric, autistic culture, and technology at aspierhetor.com.

Furthermore, Melanie is published in Kairos, Computers and Composition Online, Disability Studies Quarterly, and College English. Along with co-authors Katie Wozniak and Pete Vandenberg, she was a recipient of the 2009 Kairos Best Webtext Award, and in 2008 she received the Kairos Graduate Student Award for Service. Her webtext, aut(hored)ism, received an honorable mention for the 2010 Kairos Best Webtext Award.