I am a visiting instructor in the Communication Department at Miami University, and a Ph.D. candidate in Media  & Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. My research interests include disability and the internet, blogging, and feminist media studies, and my dissertation, “Access Ability: Policies, Practices, and Representations of Disability Online,” focuses on web accessibility as a socially constructed technological policy that shapes online experience.

This site hosts my research and teaching materials, as well as a briefly-maintained blog, Dis/Embody. That title was a bit of a pun on the allegedly disembodied space of the internet and the real experiences of embodiment, ability, and disability that color presentations of online identity and that allow and constrain particular activities.

“Trilliz,” a concatenation of a wildflower (trillium, seen above) and my name, is my usual online handle. Find me, and things I like, elsewhere:

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