On this first full episode of Disorderly Voices, hosts Patrick Campbell and Maria Stuart are joined by Josh St. Pierre to discuss his article “The Construction of the Disabled Speaker: Locating Stuttering in Disability Studies.” In this work Josh traces the origins of speech norms and how they are embedded within economic and social structures. Josh, Patrick, and Maria discuss his work within the broader context of disability studies, the relation between stammering and forms of oppression and what it means to develop solidarity among stammerers as a political community.

Links:

• The Construction of the Disabled Speaker (Open Access)
• Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada
• Tanya Titchkosky, Disability, Self, and Society (2006)
• AJ Withers, Disability Politics and Theory (2024)
• Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, Sam Simpson (Eds), Stammering Pride and Prejudice (2019)
• Alison Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip (2013)
• Did I Stutter?
• JJJJJerome Ellis
• Joshua St. Pierre, Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication (2022)

Joshua St. Pierre is a Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Josh leads the Stuttering Commons project, a cross-disciplinary and trans-national collective that seeks to establish dysfluency studies as a recognized and accessible field of knowledge.

Welcome, welcome, welcome. Disorderly voices is a new stammering podcast. A space to reflect, review and discuss pieces of dysfluent writing, scholarship and art that transform our understandings of stammering.

Hosts Patrick Campbell and Maria Stuart, along with their first guest Joshua St. Pierre, introduce themselves, their broader research interests, and the role of stammering and dysfluency in their own work. They talk about the plan for season one of Disorderly Voices and how it fits into the broader project of Stuttering Commons.

Links:

• Stammering Pride and Prejudice: Difference not Defect, edited by Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, and Sam Simpson.
• The Stammering Collective
• Stuttering Commons

Patrick Campbell is a stammerer, doctor and academic living in London, England.

Maria Stuart is Assistant Professor in American Literature at University College Dublin, and a person who stutters.

Joshua St. Pierre is a Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta.