Dr. Wendy L. Chrisman has been on faculty in Writing, Literature, & Philosophy at Columbus College of Art & Design since 2007, where she teaches academic, professional, and persuasive writing, and rhetorical/literary analysis through project-based learning. Her research interests include cultural and rhetorical studies, critical theory, disability studies and the medical humanities, mental health narratives, and animal and environmental advocacy. She is currently exploring how we create purpose and meaning through humanities-centered knowledge at the intersection of artificial intelligence and its regulatory framework. Since 2024, she has served on the Bargaining Committee for the CCAD Faculty Alliance, helping to secure the CFA’s first Collective Bargaining Agreement.
She received her BA in English at the University of Central Florida and her MA and PhD in English at The Ohio State University. From 1997-2007, she taught at The Ohio State University’s Department of English and was a guest lecturer at the Nisonger Center’s Leadership in Excellence in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program. Her publications and collaborations have appeared in Radical Relevance: Essays Toward a Scholarship of the Whole Left, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, Prose Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Lore: The Stairwell.
