Brenda Jo Brueggmann is professor of English and Vice-Chair, a faculty advisor for the American Sign Language program, and coordinator for the interdisciplinary disability studies program at Ohio State University. 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), and essays and articles on pedagogy, qualitative research, literacy, rhetoric, deaf and disability studies. She is the editor of and a contributor to Literacy and Deaf People: Cultural and Contextual Perspectives (Gallaudet UP, 2004) and coeditor and contributor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (Modern Language Association, 2002) and Women and Deafness: Multidisciplinary Approaches (Gallaudet UP, 2006). She serves as editor for the Gallaudet University Press “Deaf Lives” series (autobiography and biography) and coeditor for the journal, Disability Studies Quarterly.