Disorderly Voices

Host Patrick Campbell is joined by Sam Simpson and Dr. Maria Stuart to discuss Maria’s work on the Stammering Collective and her readings of dysfluency in poetry. Maria talks about her experiences in university as a person who stutters – both as a student and an educator, her work on dysfluency in Emily Dickinson’s poetic voice, (dys)fluency in popular culture, and building a stuttering heritage.

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Show Notes

Hosts Patrick Campbell and Maria Stewart are joined by Conor Foran and Sam Simpson to discuss Sam’s article Looking Back, Looking Forward from the book Stammering Pride and Prejudice: Difference not Defect. Sam’s article speaks to the frustration but also the hope of change in how stuttering is considered within the speech therapy profession. Together, they discuss topics like the power of the social model of disability,...

How should stuttering look in text? Can representations of stuttering in written form reflect its spontaneity and variety? Host Patrick Campbell is joined by Chris Constantino and artist Conor Foran to discuss how Conor’s final project in art school led him to a decade-long project in creating a typeface, Dysfluent Mono, that represents stuttering. Conor explains how the font tries to escape stereotypical references of stuttering a...

What does it mean to be proud of one’s stutter? What does one gain from their stutter? Hosts Patrick, Maria, and Josh are joined by Chris Constantino to discuss his radical essay Stuttering Gain and dive into the world of stuttering pride. In this episode, they talk about the unique experience of stuttering and how we can find benefit in stuttering, as opposed to only thinking about stuttering as a lack of fluency. While the experi...

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 th...

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 studi...