Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance

Contributors

Contributors Philip Auslander is a professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches performance studies and media studies. He is the author of numerous essays and four books on theater and performance, including Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (Routledge, 1999), for which he won the 2000 Joe Callaway Prize for Best Book in Drama or Theatre. Most recently, he edited the four-volume anthology Performance: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2003). Anne Davis Basting is the director of the Center on Age and Community at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and the founder-director of the Time Slips Project. Basting is both an award-winning playwright and a scholar of performance studies who has written extensively on representation of aging in theater and everyday life. She is the author of The Stages of Age: Performing Age in Contemporary American Culture (University of Michigan Press, 1998). Jessica Berson teaches dance history, Laban movement analysis, and modern dance at Wesleyan University and is pursuing a Ph.D. in theater at University of Wisconsin, Madison. She studied American Sign Language and deaf history at Teachers College, New York University, and New York Society for the Deaf, and has worked as a volunteer interpreter for elderly Deaf and Deaf-blind adults. In New York City, she taught dance to Deaf students at the National Dance Institute and tutored students at the Junior High School for the Deaf. Her research and choreography focuses on community -based dance performance. Shannon Bradford is the director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at SUNY Brockport, where she also teaches courses in dance and theater. Bradford, who is also a Fulbright Scholar, specializes in teach327 ing with technology, including web-enhanced courses, hybrid courses and electronic portfolios. Her multimedia CD-ROM on the Australian Theatre of the Deaf was the ‹rst dissertation to be designed in hypertext format at the University of Texas, Austin, where Bradford received both her M.A. and her Ph.D. in theater history/criticism/theory/text. Brenda Jo Brueggemann is an associate professor of English, women’s studies, and comparative studies at Ohio State University, where she coordinates the American Sign Language Program and disability studies minor. She has contributed essays to several edited volumes and to such journals as Disability Studies Quarterly, College Composition and Communication, and College English . She edits the Deaf Lives series from Gallaudet University Press, and she is coeditor of the Modern Language Association Press volume Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities and author of Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness (Gallaudet University Press, 1999). Johnson Cheu received his Ph.D. in English at Ohio State University, where he wrote his dissertation on the cultural and rhetorical constructions of cure in twentieth-century American literature, ‹lm, and memoir. He is currently a visiting assistant professor at Michigan State University’s department of writing, rhetoric, and American cultures. His scholarly work has appeared in Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory (Continuum, 2002), and his poetry is published in Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out (Plume, 1997), Disability Studies Quarterly, Progressive, Midwest Poetry Review, and the anthology Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images (Coffee House, 2003). Maureen Connolly is professor of physical education (disability studies), and a former director of women’s studies at Brock University, Ontario. She has published numerous essays and book chapters on phenomenology, dance, movement education, and disability. Recent essays appear in Narratives of Professional Helping, American Journal of Semiotics, Human Studies, and Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly. Tom Craig is a fellow in the International Communicology Institute, a sessional instructor in women’s studies and communication studies, and a fulltime rogue scholar in the politics of stressed embodiment. He has published a book and numerous essays on communication, lived relations, and embodied politics as played out in religious, interpersonal, health care, and educational contexts. Recent essays appear in Narratives of Professional Helping , Semiotics, Human Studies, and American Journal of Semiotics. 328 Contributors Contributors 329 Marcy J. Epstein is a National Institute for Disability Research and Rehabilitation fellow, combining research in trauma and narrative via the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation with teaching in disability studies at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. She coedited Points of Contact : Disability, Art, and Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2000) and is working on a new book on traumagraphy. Jim Ferris is a performer, director, scholar, and poet whose...