Framing Disability (Access, Agency, Archive, Art)

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with Brenda Brueggemann

The Lawrence J. and Virginia Devlin Bolmarcich Memorial Lecture

A woman with pale skin, short dark hair and black glasses speaks using American Sign Language.

ASU’s Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, with co-sponsorship from The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, welcomes Dr. Brenda Brueggemann as the guest of honor for the Inaugural Lawrence J. and Virginia Devlin Bolmarcich Memorial Lecture.

The Lawrence J. and Virginia Devlin Bolmarcich Memorial Lecture strives to promote a positive, more inclusive disability culture at ASU, in fulfillment of the ASU charter.

About the Guest of Honor

Brenda Jo Brueggemann is Professor of English and Aetna Endowed Chair of Writing at the University of Connecticut; she also teaches at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College during the summer. She has been deaf (genetic) from birth. After college, she taught high school in her rural Kansas community for five years before going to graduate school. In the mid-1990s, bolstered by the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, she helped conceptualize the new field of Disability Studies.

She has written, co-written, edited, or co-edited 16 books, including nine memoirs in the “Deaf Lives” series she created for Gallaudet University Press, and more than 70 essays and articles at the intersections of Deaf/Disability Studies and writing/art. Her current research centers on disability and deafness in the visual and literary arts.