Katie Rose Guest Pryal
Katie Rose Guest Pryal, J.D., Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of law at the University of North Carolina School of Law and an expert on mental health and disability. Her books include A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education (University Press of Kansas, 2023) and Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education (Blue Crow, 2017). Her websites are krgpryal.substack.com and katieroseguestpryal.com.
Stories by this Author
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AdviceHow to Teach Your (Many) Neurodivergent Students
It’s easier than you think to make your classroom welcoming and accessible to students with autism and other diagnoses. -
The Review | Opinion
When ‘Rigor’ Targets Disabled Students
Punitive attendance politics and inflexible deadlines make students’ lives needlessly difficult. -
The Review | Opinion
Abortion Bans Put Colleges in Legal Limbo
Post-Dobbs, weak medical privacy endangers students — and the rest of us. -
The Review | Opinion
Abortion Is a Higher-Ed Issue
The end of Roe will worsen the campus mental-health crisis. -
The Review | Opinion
When Universities Raid Student Therapy Records
This insidious practice must stop. Now. -
Advice
Public Writing in Uncertain Times
Don’t write for the general public to “be productive.” Do it because, in this anxiety-producing year, it will help you or someone else to make sense of our senseless times. -
Advice
The Public Writing Life: the Venue, the Pitch, and the Fee
How to decide which mainstream publications to pitch your essay to, and how to ask about the money. -
Advice
You Want to Write for the Public, but About What?
How to take your academic expertise and turn it into something that you, and your public, will want to read. -
Advice
10 Questions Every Academic Should Ask Before Writing for the Public
A new series, “The Public Writing Life,” offers practical advice for academics on writing for a general audience. -
Advice
On Faculty and Mental Illness
Finally, academe has a guide for how to better treat its psychiatrically disabled workers.
