Deaf American Prose 1830-1930

Acknowledgments

xiii Acknowledgments We thank our colleagues in the English Department for their support, particularly Paige Franklin, who generously provided fellowship funds and support in the form of manuscript preparation help from former English Department research assistants Ryan Barrett and Erica Wilkins. We also thank our Gallaudet University interns during the academic year 2012, who were: Steven Jeczala, Christopher Thomas, Betty Joan Goodridge, and Claira Oberrender; they worked with us on manuscript preparation, research, and biographies. We very much enjoyed the conversations we had with them about writing and Deaf writers of the past. Thanks go to Kenneth G. Samson for checking copyrights and doing some investigative work for contributor biographies. Many thanks go to John Lee Clark for his sage advice and encyclopedic knowledge. Thanks also go to Diana Gates Moore and Michael Olson at the Gallaudet University Library and Archives. Kristen thanks her colleagues in the National Science Foundation-funded Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2), for their support and thoughtful commentary, particularly Melissa Malzkuhn. Jennifer and Kristen also thank their families for their loving support and patience while they were working on this collection. And last but not least, we thank Christopher B. Krentz and Octavian Robinson for lending their expertise to this book by writing the foreword and afterword. Deaf American Prose c ...