Brenda Brueggemann
Professor, English, and Aetna Chair of Writing
Co-Editor, Disability Studies Quarterly
Specialties and Interest Areas in Research, Service, and Teaching:
- Deaf Studies
- Disability Studies
- disability art and creative expression
- universal design (UDL) multimodality and access to education
- captioning
- global disability issues
- disability and human rights
- teaching college writing
- writing program administration
- women in higher education
- university and community engagement
- creative nonfiction
Current research projects:
- Posting Mabel: an epistolary biography of Mabel Hubbard Bell (Alexander Graham Bell’s deaf wife)
- AktionT4: Economics,Euthanasia, Eugenics (a blog about the Nazi’s T4 program that exterminated over 240,000 people with disabilities): http://aktiont4.com/
- Active & Accessible: Writing Moves for the 21st Century. A multimodal writing textbook with Lisa A. Blansett and Alex Gatten.
- The Aesthetics, Bioethics, and Rhetorics of Access in Art and Cultural Museums. Ongoing collaborative project with Rosemarie Garland Thomson (Emory University) and Georgina Kleege (Berkeley). Engagement with, and multimodal analysis of, disability “access” and presence (whether transparent or opaque) in major art and cultural spaces.
- The Cambridge History of Rhetoric. Steven Mallioux and Lu Ming Mao, Editors. Chapter on “Disability and Rhetoric.”
- Disability and the Teaching of Writing (second expanded edition). Co-editing an updated and greatly expanded second edition of the 2008 “critical sourcebook” published with Bedford St. Martin’s.
- MLA Options for Teaching: Disability Studies in Language and Literature. Co-editing with Georgina Kleege and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
- The Pandemic and Academics Writing Project. This project is currently a triangulation of three different narrative/writing projects all focused on academic writing during the global pandemic of 2020 (and beyond).
(selected) Published Monographs and Collections and Film:
- Arts and Humanities (vol 8). The SAGE Reference Series on Disability Key Issues and Future Directions. (with Elizabeth Brewer, Nicholas Hetrick and Melanie Yergeau). Sage Publications, 2012.
- Deaf Subjects: Between Identities and Places. New York UP, 2009.
- Disability and/in Prose. Co-editor with Marian E. Lupo. Routledge, 2008.
- Constructing James Castle (film, 2013)
