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239 Shannon Allen has worked as a teacher with deaf children for ten years. She holds a BA in Linguistics and an M.Ed in Deaf education. She is currently Lead Teacher for ASL and English Bilingual Education at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. She is also a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania in the Reading/Writing/Literacy program. Her research focuses on bilingual language and literacy planning for Deaf education. H-Dirksen L. Bauman is a Professor of Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University where he directs the graduate program in Deaf studies. He is the co-editor of the book/ DVD project, Signing the Body Poetic: Essays in American Sign Language Literature (University of California Press, 2006). He has published articles on sign language poetics, audism, and bioethical issues in Deaf studies and is the executive producer of the documentary film, Audism Unveiled. Adrian Blue is a director, translator, storyteller, playwright, and actor who has been in theatre professionally for the last thirty-six years. He has directed more than sixty productions and translated more than thirty plays and novels, including children’s books and several Shakespeare plays. Brenda Jo Brueggemann is an Associate Professor of English, Women’s Studies, and Comparative Studies at Ohio State University where she also serves as cocoordinator for both the ASL program and the Disability Studies undergraduate minor and graduate specialization. She is the author, co-author, editor, and coeditor of several books in disability studies and Deaf studies. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke is a bioethicist and philosopher at Gallaudet University . She has worked in bioethics since 1986, starting her career by writing position papers for California Health Decisions, a grassroots advocacy organization. In addition to teaching at Gallaudet University, she currently serves as a consultant and instructor to the Ethics Institute at the University of New Mexico. Peter S. Cook is an internationally reputed Deaf storyteller/poet. He has traveled extensively around the country and abroad with the Flying Words Project to promote ASL Literature with Kenny Lerner since 1986. Peter has appeared in “United States of Poetry” (PBS) produced by Emmy winner Bob Holman and was featured at the National Storytelling Festival, Illinois Storytelling Festival, Hoosier Contributors 240 Contributors Storytelling Festival, Tales of Graz in Austria, Deaf Way II, and the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center. Peter has worked with Deaf students in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Japan. He was invited to the White House to join the National Book Festival in 2003. Peter lives in Chicago and teaches in the ASLEnglish Interpretation Department at Columbia College. He loves to tell stories to his son. David Corina is currently a faculty member at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis and holds appointments in the departments of Linguistics and Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego, and an MA in Linguistics from Gallaudet University. He researches the neural organization of language and cognition in deaf and hearing individuals. He receives support from NIH-NIDCD, NIHNIMH , and NIH-NIBIB. Michael Davidson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. His books include The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge UP, 1989), Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word (U of California, 1997) and Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics (U of Chicago, 2003). He has also published eight books of poetry, most recently The Arcades (O Books, 1998). Davidson has written extensively on disability issues and is completing a book on disability and cultural forms entitled Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and Cultural Studies. Doreen M. DeLuca has a BS Degree in Elementary Education and is certified in Deaf Education. Her Interpreter training work was completed in New Jersey and she is RID certified. Doreen has been working as a freelance Sign Language Interpreter in the Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia areas since 1990. She has taught ASL at Swarthmore College since 1999. She is co-author of a children’s story book with a bilingual approach to reading for deaf children and their hearing peers, forthcoming from Gallaudet University Press. She is married and the mother of three. Kristen Harmon is Associate Professor of English at Gallaudet University, Washington , D.C. In addition to her work in Deaf studies, Kristen has published academic articles in Disability Studies, ethnographic studies, feminist theory, and literary theory. She is also a creative writer with published...

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