Brenda Brueggemann
Brenda Brueggemann is Professor of English and Director of the Composition Program at the University of Louisville. She is the former editor of the academic journal, Disability Studies Quarterly. She is the author of Deaf Subjects: Between Identities and Places (New York UP, 2009) and Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness (Gallaudet UP, 1999). She is also co-author, Editor, or Co-Editor of 7 other books and over 50 essays and articles. In 2012 she curated a major art exhibit at the Urban Arts Space in Columbus, Ohio; “Constructing James Castle” featured 142 works from the deaf self-taught rural Idaho artist, James Castle.
Her current projects include: a co-authored volume on disability in higher education; a work of creative non-fiction (combining epistolary, biography, autobiography) on Mabel Hubbard Bell, Alexander Graham Bell’s deaf wife; an educational and critical blog on the Nazi’s “Aktion T-4” program that killed over 240,000 people with disabilities from 1940-1945; a film on the deaf “self-taught” artist, James Castle.
She is an avid fan of college football and basketball (but sorry to say, orange is not one of her favorite colors)–and a strong proponent of dashes, parentheses, and ellipses as well.