Sara Biggs Chaney
Senior Lecturer
Appointments
Senior Lecturer in Writing
Associate Coordinator of MMUF
Area of Expertise
critical autism studies,
rhetorical theory,
disability studies,
ADHD,
neurodivergence,
experimental poetics,
gender studies
Biography
Sara Biggs Chaney has taught writing courses for the Institute since 2005 and served as the Associate Coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship since 2016. She studies the rhetoric of ADHD across media and historical periods and teaches first-year writing courses focused on disability and representation.
Education
B.A. Barnard College
M.A. Indiana University
Ph.D. Indiana University
Publications
"ADHD and Rhetorics of Delinquency" Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Volume 8, No. 1, Winter, 2025. pp. 85-113
"Rankings and Ravings in the Academic Public." Rhetoric Review, April 2011.
"Beyond Critical Pedagogy in Basic Writing." Review Essay, Enculturation, June 2010.
"Study of Teacher Error: Misreading Resistance in the Basic Writing Classroom." Journal of Basic Writing 23 (Spring 2004): 25-38.
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