Selected Print and Electronic Resources

Scholarly Sources

Auslander, P., & Sandahl, C. (Eds.). (2002). Bodies in commotion: Disability and performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

[Page 224]This cross-disciplinary collection of essays describes what disability studies and theater studies/performance studies can offer one another. Interested in the concept of “commotion,” the essays focus on the power of performance (broadly, including theater, dance, literary criticism, cultural studies, arts, sports, and activism) to transgress boundaries and interrogate disability identity.

Brueggemann, B. J. (1999). Lend me your ear: Rhetorical constructions of deafness. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.

This work applies the classical and contemporary framework of rhetorical theory and practice to constructions of “deafness” (as a condition) and “Deaf culture” (as a social phenomenon). It combines critical and creative approaches to explore rhetorical constructions of deafness as a disability, as a pathology, and as a culture.

Brueggemann, B. J. (2009). Deaf subjects: Between identities and places. New York, NY, and London, UK: New York University Press.

Deaf Subjects explores the construction of modern deaf subjects and the borders and between-places where deafness, deaf people, and Deaf culture might be found. Topics covered include the tension between deafness and/as a disability, intersecting deaf identity with gender, and considering the place of Deaf studies and American Sign Language in the academy.

Brueggemann, B. J., & Burch, S. (Eds.). (2006). Women and deafness: Double visions. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.

In the first book to bring Deaf studies and women's studies together, contributors to this interdisciplinary collection consider deaf women's roles inside and outside the (Deaf) community, women's authority in shaping deafness and deaf children in schools and families, and representations of deaf women in film, art, language, and popular culture events such as beauty pageants.

Brueggemann, B. J., & Lupo, M. E. (2008). Disability and/in prose. London, UK, and New York, NY: Routledge.

This work contains 14 personal and/or critical essays that explore the intersections between “prose” and “disability.” Themes include the essay as a principal (and historical) form for writing about disability, 19th-century literary and cultural history that brings together the working body and disability, war and “normalcy,” and the role of metaphor in critical and creative prose on disability.

Burch, S. (2009). Encyclopedia of American disability history (Vols. 1–3). New York, NY: Facts on File.

[Page 225]This three-volume reference series offers more than 750 entries, over 70 primary documents, and an annotated chronology from 1624 to 2009. More than 350 contributors composed entries that cover events, people, places, laws, and policies about disability as both a historical and a contemporary issue.

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