Brenda Brueggemann
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Brueggemann introduces herself and discusses history.
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Positions: Current academic and administrative positions at Ohio State University: Associate Professor, English; Associate Faculty, Comparative Studies and Women’s Studies. Coordinator, American Sign Language (ASL) Program; Coordinator, Undergraduate Disability Studies Minor and Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization (GIS) in Disability Studies. Other positions: Acting Chair, Board of Trustees, Gallaudet University; Series editor, “Deaf Lives,” Gallaudet University Press; Co-editor, Disability Studies Quarterly.
Publications: Author Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness (Gallaudet UP, 1999) and essays and articles in edited collections and journals on pedagogy, literacy, rhetoric, deaf studies and disability studies. Co-author Rhetorical Visions: Writing and Reading in a Visual Culture. Editor and contributor for: Literacy and Deaf People: Cultural and Contextual Perspectives (Gallaudet UP, 2004); special issue of Prose Studies, “Disability and/in Prose” (April/August 2005). Co-editor and contributor for: Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (MLA Press, 2002); Women and Deafness: Double Visions (2006); Disability, Teaching, and Writing: A Critical Sourcebook (Bedford St. Martin’s, forthcoming 2007).
Some Projects in Progress: Book manuscript: “Placing Deafness: Modern American Deaf Experiences and Identities” (New York University Press, forthcoming); collaborative editorial rebuilding of Disability Studies Quarterly; advancing American Sign Language literature (an anthology and history) via digital media technologies; documenting a history of disability and disability studies at Ohio State University (see the “Research on Research” program); intersections between deaf studies and disability studies; global disability conversations and initiatives; technology and/as identity for deaf and disabled people; deaf women.
Awards and Grants: Great Communicator Award (Columbus Speech and Hearing Center) 2006; College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Leadership Award for the OSU-ASL Program, 2006; President’s and Provost’s Leadership Institute (OSU), 2005-06; Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA) for the ASL Literature and Digital Media Project, 2004-05; Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award (OSU) 2001; Kathryn Schoen Award for Women in Academic Leadership (OSU) 2000; Faculty Innovator Grant for Disabilities (FIGD) for “The Accessible Writing Center,” 1999; OSU Cares Grant for “The Deaf-Write Project” (with Columbus Speech and Hearing Center), 1999; Ohio Humanities Council grant for “Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities,” 1998; Coca-Cola Foundation for Research on Women for “Interpreting Women: Gender and Sign Language Interpreting Dynamics,” 1998; OSU Campus Collaborative Grant for “The Neighborhood Literacy Tutoring Project,” 1996.
Teaching: My current teaching is largely in deaf studies and disability studies, always with a grounding in rhetorical theory and practice. I have designed, collaboratively or individually, several new courses in these areas at Ohio State University. Many of my research projects grow out of, and go back to, my classroom and teaching experiences. Much of my scholarship is collaborative with my colleagues and/or my students in rhetoric, identity studies, deaf studies, and disability studies.
Contact Brenda Brueggemann:
Email: brueggemann.1@osu.edu
Page last updated August 23, 2006
