By Emily Sok, Published February 15, 2024
Contact: axh151@shsu.edu
Twitter/X Account: https://twitter.com/AdaHubrig
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ada-hubrig-0a4ba733/
Dr. Ada Hubrig (they/them) is an assistant professor at Sam Houston State University who earned their degree from the University of North Dakota. Dr. Hubrig’s scholarship specializes in disability and access at the intersections of composition, queer rhetorics, teacher preparation, and community literacies.
As they have said it themselves, “I’m here for disabled community. Disabled. Autistic. Cane/wheelchair user. Ostomate. Cat mom. GNC femme. They/Them.” Dr. Hubrig serves on the CCC Committee on Disability Issues, and received the 2022 NCTE Leadership Award for People with Disabilities.
In my own efforts to get to know their work, I found that Dr. Hubrig has been a guest editor in two influential community writing journals: Spark: A 4C4 Equality Journal, and Community Literacy Journal. Writing with Christina Cedillo in Community Literacy Journal, they remind us how access is everyone’s responsibility, but is something that does tend to replicate oppressive norms and epistemologies.
But, Hubrig wrote, “disability justice reminds us that we are forced to compete for resources under manufactured scarcity, that marginalized students are harmed under the guise of meritocracy, that those trying to do the work of making these spaces better are often punished or pushed out. Disability justice doesn’t need academia. Academia is in dire need of disability justice.” Disability justice, they explained, “holds us accountable.”
Their work has been featured in The Sandbox, a Community Literacies Collaboratory publication, and other venues such as College Composition & Communication, Community Literacy Journal, Composition Studies, and more.
Take a look at some of Dr. Hubrig’s Publications:
- See their Academia.edu publication list here: https://shsu.academia.edu/AHubrig
- “Beyond (Favor) Access: Constellating Communities through Collective Access” (2023), in College Composition & Communication, available at https://publicationsncte.org/content/journals/10.58680/ccc202332670
- “Guest Editors’ Introduction” (2022) in Community Literacy Journal, available at https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/communityliteracy/vol17/iss1/2/
- “This Disability Pride Month, Let’s Expand Our Disability Literacy” (2022), in NCTE Blog, available at https://ncte.org/blog/2023/07/disability-pride-month/
- “‘We Move Together:’ Reckoning with Disability Justice in Community Literacy Studies” (2020), in Community Literacy Journal, available at https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/communityliteracy/vol14/iss2/10/
The Virginia Community Writing Collaborative 