Brenda Brueggemann Presentations

Presentations

Selected Invited Academic Lectures

"Posting Mabel: A Reading." City University of New York, the Graduate School. October 23, 2007.
"Evolution of the Final Solution: the Nazi T-4 Program and People with Disabilities." University of Texas-Arlington. (Lecture in conjunction with the Freshman "One Book" Program's 2007 book, Art Spiegelman's Maus), October 10, 2007. View the Power Point, read the talk, or review the bibliography for the talk.
"Deaf Eyes: The Allen Sisters Pictorial Photography, 1885-1920." Gallaudet University, I. King Jordan Presidential Lecture, April 6, 2006.
"Disability and Literacy." University of Michigan, Comparative Studies, April 3, 2006.
"Economics, Eugenics, Euthanasia: Rhetorical Commonplaces for Disability." Keynote Address, Federation Rhetoric Symposium, Texas Women's University, Feb. 24, 2006.
"Building Disability Studies in the Academy." Faculty/Administrator Workshop, University of Arizona, April 27, 2005.
"Think-Between: Commonplaces for Contemporary Deaf-World." Signs and Voices: Deaf Identities, Languages, and Literatures, Tri-College Conference at Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, and Swarthmore College, November 12, 2004.
"Why Disability Studies? Why Now?" University of Missouri-Kansas City Medical Center, April 1, 2004.
"Why Disability Studies? Why Now?" University of Minnesota, October 28, 2003
"Arguing (over) Ability: Locating Disability in Contemporary Culture." Miami University, Oxford, OH, March 31, 2003.
"Curing Superman." Ohio State Winter College, Naples, FLA, March 1, 2003.
"Disability Studies: What's Up With That?" OSU Medical School, Grand Round Lecture, July 25, 2002.
Muhlenberg University, "Teaching Disability Studies Across the University Curriculum: A Faculty Workshop," Allentown, PA., May 14-16 (Keynote presenter)
University of Arizona Composition Program Annual Spring Conference, Keynote Lecture, "An Enabling Pedagogy." March 1, 2002.
"Disability Studies: Why and How." University of Toledo, February 8, 2002.
"Disability Studies in the Humanities Curriculum." University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 26, 2001
"Delivering Disability, Willing Speech" University of Illinois-Chicago, Department of Disability and Human Development and Department of English, October 26, 2000.
Plenary Address, "Willing Speech: Women, Authority, Deafness" 15th Annual Conference on Issues in Language and Deafness, Boystown National Research Hospital and Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, October 6, 2000.
Annual Burke Lecture, "An Enabling Pedagogy," Penn State University, Department of English, April 3, 2000.

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Selected and Recent Conference Presentations

"Deaf Studies and Disability Studies: A Tango." Society for Disability Studies, Plenary Session. . Bethseda, MD. June 16, 2006.
"Writing Mabel" Associated Writing Programs, Austin, TX, March 9, 2006.
"The Complex Simplicities of ABC Stories in American Sign Language Literature." Modern Language Assn. Convention, Washington, DC, Dec. 28, 2006.
"The Nazi T-4 Program and People with Disabilities: Ethical, Logical, and Emotional Responses" American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities, Washington D.C., Oct. 21, 2005.
"People with Disabilities and the Nazi T-4 Program." Plenary Address, Multliple Perspectives on Disability, Ohio State University, April 13, 2005.
"American Sign Language and the Challenges of the Contemporary Academy." Modern Language Assn. Convention, Philadelphia, PA., Dec. 28, 2004 (Part of Presidential Forum on American Sign Language)
"Narrating Deaf Lives: The Stories Unfold." Conference Welcome for "Narrating Deaf Lives: Biography, Autobiography, and Documentary Approaches" conference, Gallaudet University Press Institute, Washington, D.C., Nov. 3-5, 2004.
"Deaf, She Wrote: Reading and Writing for What Audiences?" Modern Language Association Conference on Disability Studies, Atlanta, GA, March 5, 2004.
"ASL: The Little Language that Could." Modern Language Assn. Convention, San Diego, CA, Dec. 28, 2004.
"Laboring to Direct a First-Year Writing Program." With Wendy Hesford. Modern Language Assn. Convention, San Diego, CA, Dec. 29, 2004.
"Deaf, She Wrote." Society for Disability Studies, Bethseda, Maryland, June 15, 2003.
"Progressive Disability: The State We Are All In." Keynote for CCCC Progressive Caucus, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New York, NY, March 19, 2003.
"Teaching: The Subject." Special Session arranged by MLA Publication Committee (on new volume, Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities.) Modern Language Assn. Convention, New York, NY, December 28, 2002.
"Coming Out Pedagogy" with Debra A. Moddelmog. Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA., Dec. 27, 2001.
"Coming Out Pedagogy" with Debra A. Moddelmog. American Studies Association, Washington D.C., November 10, 2001.
"Women, Literacy, Deafness." Third Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, October 18, 2001.
"Interpreting Women, Willing Speech: the Gendered Rhetoric of Deafness." Gender and Disability Studies Conference, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, March 3, 2001.
"An Enabling Pedagogy: Disability in the Literature Classroom." Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 28, 2000.
"Delivering Disability," Rhetoric Society of America, Washington D.C., May 29, 2000.

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Selected and Recent Public, Educational, Organizational Presentations and Lectures

"Disability and the Teaching of Writing." Columbus State Community College, Faculty Workshop, October 19, 2007.
"The Allen Sisters Pictorial Photography, 1885-1920: Deaf Eyes." Big Picture Lecture at Columbus Museum of Art (in conjunction with exhibit of Allen Sisters photography), February 17, 2005.
"People with Disabilities and the Nazi T-4 Program." Columbus School for Girls, Columbus, Ohio, April 21, 2005.
"Naming Normalcy: Disability Studies Approaches to Frankenstein." NEH Symposium on "Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature." Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Lennox Center, Columbus Ohio, October 13, 2003.
"Disability at Work and in the World." Ross Laboratories, July 25, 2002.
"Working with Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Clients." The OSU Optometry Club, January 25, 2002

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