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Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy
Brueggemann named new RCL Vice ChairMore Features
Beginning Summer Quarter 2009, Brenda Brueggemann will serve as the Vice-Chair of Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies. Brueggemann takes over from Kay Halasek who has held the position for the past four years. Brueggemann is the author of Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness and Deaf Subjects: Between Identities and Places and of personal essays and articles on pedagogy, qualitative research, literacy, rhetoric, deaf and disability studies. She is the co-editor of and contributor to Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities; Women and Deafness: Double Visions; Disability and/in Prose; Disability and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Sourcebook, and the editor of and contributor to Literacy and Deaf People: Cultural and Contextual Perspectives. She joined the OSU faculty in 1992, and along with her appointment in English she serves as Associate Faculty for Women's Studies and Comparative Studies; Coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Program in Disability Studies; and Faculty Leader of the American Sign Language Program.
