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GUPress is proud to introduce BUG: Deaf Identity and Internal Revolution, by faculty member Christopher Jon Heuer, an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Literacy. Heuer’s book combines new work with his best columns from The Tactile Mind Weekly, an electronic literary magazine, and his “Mind Over Matter” column in theNational Association of the Deaf’s NADezine publication. Heuer lost his hearing early, but not before “being able to hear a lot as a kid,” as he puts it. He was educated both in a speech-oriented setting and a signing environment, varied experiences that provided him with the perfect background to write about biases he faced from each end of the deaf/hearing spectrum. Heuer addresses a varied range of topics--exit interviews, baldness, faith healing, marriage, cats, backyard campfires in boxer shorts--with a wicked wit that spares no aspect of life and deafness.
GUPress also recently released Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American Community, the companion book to the PBS documentary film that presents 200 years of images and stories from the historical struggles and triumphs of the deaf community, by Douglas C. Baynton, Jack R. Gannon, and Jean Lindquist Bergey. Neither--Nor: A Young Australian’s Experience with Deafness, by Paul Jacobs, tells of the author’s search in Australia and Europe for an identity that has yet to be invented; Jacobs is neither deaf nor hearing, but living in between the two worlds. InWhen I Am Dead: The Writings of George M. Teegarden, the sixth volume of the series Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies, editor Raymond Luczak presents the “short shorts,” stories, and poetry of a dedicated deaf teacher in the late 19th and early 20th centuries at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Carolyn E. Williamson’s Black Deaf Students: A Model for Educational Success features interviews with nine successful African American deaf and hard of hearing adults, who discuss how they overcame obstacles in school. Jack Hoza wrote It’s Not What You Sign, It’s How You Sign It: Politeness in American Sign Language, by examining variables in how English speakers and native ASL signers express politeness. In Surgical Consent: Bioethics and Cochlear Implantation, editor Linda Komesaroff has assembled an unmatched group of renowned ethicists, educators, and deaf leaders to express their views on the bioethics of cochlear implantation of children.
For young audiences and their parents, GUPress offersWhere Is Baby? A Lift-the-Flap Sign Language Book by Michelle Cryan. The book features 12 basic questions in ASL with English translations in a full-color, lift-the-flap book to teach sign to children ages 1 to 4 in a fun, interactive way.
The final offering from the GUPress this season is William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night DVD: An American Sign Language Performance, directed by Peter Novak. This fully captioned DVD with voice-over allows viewers to enjoy a vivacious ASL performance of Shakespeare’s romantic romp, while a special website provides explanations of the techniques used for the ASL translation, information about Shakespeare and the play, and complete lesson plans. All of these books and DVDs are available from Gallaudet University Press online.
GUPress is proud to introduce BUG: Deaf Identity and Internal Revolution, by faculty member Christopher Jon Heuer, an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Literacy. Heuer’s book combines new work with his best columns from The Tactile Mind Weekly, an electronic literary magazine, and his “Mind Over Matter” column in theNational Association of the Deaf’s NADezine publication. Heuer lost his hearing early, but not before “being able to hear a lot as a kid,” as he puts it. He was educated both in a speech-oriented setting and a signing environment, varied experiences that provided him with the perfect background to write about biases he faced from each end of the deaf/hearing spectrum. Heuer addresses a varied range of topics--exit interviews, baldness, faith healing, marriage, cats, backyard campfires in boxer shorts--with a wicked wit that spares no aspect of life and deafness.
GUPress also recently released Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American Community, the companion book to the PBS documentary film that presents 200 years of images and stories from the historical struggles and triumphs of the deaf community, by Douglas C. Baynton, Jack R. Gannon, and Jean Lindquist Bergey. Neither--Nor: A Young Australian’s Experience with Deafness, by Paul Jacobs, tells of the author’s search in Australia and Europe for an identity that has yet to be invented; Jacobs is neither deaf nor hearing, but living in between the two worlds. InWhen I Am Dead: The Writings of George M. Teegarden, the sixth volume of the series Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies, editor Raymond Luczak presents the “short shorts,” stories, and poetry of a dedicated deaf teacher in the late 19th and early 20th centuries at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Carolyn E. Williamson’s Black Deaf Students: A Model for Educational Success features interviews with nine successful African American deaf and hard of hearing adults, who discuss how they overcame obstacles in school. Jack Hoza wrote It’s Not What You Sign, It’s How You Sign It: Politeness in American Sign Language, by examining variables in how English speakers and native ASL signers express politeness. In Surgical Consent: Bioethics and Cochlear Implantation, editor Linda Komesaroff has assembled an unmatched group of renowned ethicists, educators, and deaf leaders to express their views on the bioethics of cochlear implantation of children.
For young audiences and their parents, GUPress offersWhere Is Baby? A Lift-the-Flap Sign Language Book by Michelle Cryan. The book features 12 basic questions in ASL with English translations in a full-color, lift-the-flap book to teach sign to children ages 1 to 4 in a fun, interactive way.
The final offering from the GUPress this season is William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night DVD: An American Sign Language Performance, directed by Peter Novak. This fully captioned DVD with voice-over allows viewers to enjoy a vivacious ASL performance of Shakespeare’s romantic romp, while a special website provides explanations of the techniques used for the ASL translation, information about Shakespeare and the play, and complete lesson plans. All of these books and DVDs are available from Gallaudet University Press online.