Brenda Brueggemann
Associate Professor in the Department of English at Ohio State University. She is also Coordinator of the American Sign Language Program and Coordinator of the Disability Studies Minor. She is the author of Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness (1999) and co-editor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (2002).

"What Her Body Taught: Teaching at the Intersections of
Disability and Gender"
In this lecture/performance based on a conversation with Rosemarie Garland-Thomas and Georgina Kleege, Professor Brueggemann discusses her experiences teaching disability studies and teaching with a disability. Professor Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell) and Amy Vidali (PhD Candidate, English, UW Seattle) will take on the roles of Garland-Thomas and Kleege.

Thursday, December 2, 2004
Communications 120
5:30 pm
Reception to follow

"Disability Pedagogy Town Gown"
In this workshop, Professor Brueggemann takes a “hands-on” approach to the challenge of inserting disability studies into courses all across the university curriculum. To register, please call 206.543.3920 or email afahale@u.washington.edu.

Thursday, December 2, 2004
Communications 202
1:00 pm

The series was put on with the support of the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation, in addition to support from the Departments of English, Comparative Literature and Women Studies.

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