Call for papers! Sign Language Studies, a quarterly journal edited by Erin Wilkinson and Pilar Piñar, invites submissions focusing on research relevant to signed languages and signing communities around the world. #TISLR14 participants, take note! gupress.gallaudet.edu/SLS-call-for-p… (1/2)

Topics of interest include: -linguistics -corpora development -anthropology -deaf culture and deaf history -literature Potential formats include: -articles and essays -ongoing research reports -shorter "in brief" pieces -book and media reviews Please help spread the word! (2/2)

On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, learn more about Hand Talk and Plains Indian Sign Language in this fantastic Vox video, which features Dr. Melanie McKay-Cody, a deaf Indigenous scholar. youtu.be/s1-StAlw3aE

We just added three new titles to the Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies Series project collection on Manifold Scholarship! Read the entire collection for FREE: gallaudetupress.manifoldapp.org/projects/proje… #DeafStudies #DeafHistory #DeafLit #ReadUP

Thanks for the love UAlberta Press! 🥰 Legit terrified but also thrilled I get to co-present with Gallaudet University Press editorial board chair @GuinevereNelson. #MLA23 #MLA2023

The internalized/covert ableism of 90's-00's deaf ed scholarship is staggering. I wonder what would be different if the "we are deaf, not disabled!" argument never happened and deaf-disabled solidarity was the rule from inception. All power to all disabled people. #DeafPedaogy

A style question for #DeafEd folks: Do you know of any examples of Chicago being used instead of APA for articles or books? Asking for a friend.

April is #nationalpoetrymonth! Join us for the first installment of a special poetry series this Wednesday ft. @sarahbea89 and @jennymolberg to discuss their latest collections, GLASS and COURT OF NO RECORD. 7pm with David Keplinger - bit.ly/3Km0E8m

Italics are like epigraphs--i.e. not doing the work you think they're doing.

The very, very best news: @Eric_C_Wilder's cover design for COUNTRY OF GLASS (by @sarahbea89) was selected for the AUPresses 📚 2023 Book, Jacket, & Journal Show! 🎉 A true collaboration btw designer, author, and the press made this cover possible. Feeling so elated atm! 🥰📚❤️

This essay is GREAT. Hereby submitting my petition for all of us--scholars & publishers--to not only stop w/ the peer review talk but maybe just stop w/ peer review entirely until we can effectively address the whole destruction of higher ed fascism thing. thebaffler.com/latest/the-des…

So amazing to glimpse exceptional Gallaudet University Press books by @sarahbea89 and @deafwoof featured at my local indie Solid State Books! Definitely a proud moment for this acquiring editor. Thanks JACK KALIL 😷 for supporting our work! #IndependentBookstoreDay

Good morning Baltimore! It may be pouring rain all day, but we’re still out here at the Waverly Book Festival! Find us outside (but dry, under the roof) at Peabody Heights Brewery.

Don’t miss @sarahbea89 this Saturday, May 20 Gaithersburg Book Festival! Sarah will be discussing her poetry collection COUNTRY OF GLASS at 10:15am in the Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion. gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…

I may have quit my job, but I’m still sitting on the same couch hoping to do some of the same work. Authors and publishers: I’m here to write marketing material, help with proposals and questionnaires, and think about building community around your books: derekkrissoff.com

#DeafTwitter HEADS UP! Colleagues in DC are hosting an absolutely AMAZING opportunity for deaf, hard of hearing, and CODA students who are black, indigenous, and people of color! This 3rd annual arts-based and science-adjacent camp program is going to be stellar! R/T Please!

This week the deaf academic researcher community lost Jon Henner Jon was a valuable contributor to Acadeafic. To honour his legacy, we are inviting tributes to which we will publish on our website. They can be sent to contact(at)acadeafic.org Further instructions 🔽

New American Academy of Pediatrics clinical report supports the use of ASL. See publications.aap.org/pediatrics/art… "... a natural visual language of the Deaf, such as American Sign Language (ASL), can be especially beneficial in supporting spoken language development"