Jill M Bradbury
Gallaudet University, English, Faculty Member
- Jill Bradbury is Professor of English at Gallaudet University. She holds BA degrees in Economics and English from the... moreJill Bradbury is Professor of English at Gallaudet University. She holds BA degrees in Economics and English from the University of California, Irvine and an MA/PhD in English from Brown University. She is currently working on her MA in Economics at George Mason University. In 2016, Bradbury received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for a DeafBlind Theater Initiative. She served as project director for the DC stop of First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare national traveling exhibition sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library (2016). Publications include “Shakespeare and Sign Language,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Shakespeare (2018), “Language, Prose Genre, and the Ascendance of Economic Reasoning in Eighteenth-Century Britain" in Economic Rationalities: Economic Reasoning as Knowledge and Practice Authority( 2017). “Interest and Anglo-Irish Political Discourses in the 1720-21 Bank Pamphlet Literature” in Eighteenth-Century Ireland 28 (2015), and “New Science and the ‘New Species of Writing:’ Eighteenth-Century Prose Genres” in Eighteenth-Century Life (2003). Bradbury also co-edited Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845 (Bucknell University Press, 2008) and contributed a chapter on “Domestic, Moral, and Political Economies in Swift’s Irish Writings.” With Tyrone Giordano, she is co-creator of the short film “Digit(al) Shakespeares” (2015). Bradbury was also featured recently in a Folger Shakespeare Library podcast on Shakespeare in Sign Language (2016).edit
As deaf/Deaf/hard of hearing scholars with wide‐ranging expertise in literary studies, rhetoric, disability studies, and Deaf Studies, we have deep reservations about this article. It makes generalizations about deafness and sign language... more
As deaf/Deaf/hard of hearing scholars with wide‐ranging expertise in literary studies, rhetoric, disability studies, and Deaf Studies, we have deep reservations about this article. It makes generalizations about deafness and sign language which universalize a broad, complex, and diverse population while perpetuating inaccuracies regarding signed languages and Deaf Studies. Below, we address some of these inaccuracies and suggest resources for medievalists and literary scholars interested in these topics. First, the article displays limited knowledge of scholarship on signed languages and Deaf Studies. Take, for instance, its use of " Deafland, " one of its titular terms. This word is cited in a footnote as coming from a brief anecdote by Jennifer Nelson, a Deaf professor of English at Gallaudet University. Nelson mentions Deafland as a humorous response she offers when people ask about her deaf " accent " or where she is from. Nelson's tongue‐in‐cheek response is interpreted in Robinson's article as " a somewhat bitter joke " because no one geographic location can be associated with d/Deaf people (1). However, within Deaf Studies, this concept has been addressed often, in terms of a sense of place or the feeling of being " at home " when with other Deaf people (Van Cleve & Crouch, 1989). The use of " Deafland " in this article, then, ignores the fact that the iconic, gestural, and mimetic elements of signed languages enable Deaf people from different countries to establish communication very quickly. The article also makes hyperbolic claims about identity politics arguments that are more than 20 years old and have generally lost their relevance in Deaf Studies (4), overstating the tenor of current intellectual conversations and ignoring recent conceptualizations of Deaf/deaf identity and community such as Deafhood (
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Page 169. Domestic, Political, and Moral Economies in Swift's Irish Writings Jill Marie Bradbury Studies of the Anglo-Irish identity of Jonathan Swift (1667 1745) have revealed a number of personas:" a coloniser, a... more
Page 169. Domestic, Political, and Moral Economies in Swift's Irish Writings Jill Marie Bradbury Studies of the Anglo-Irish identity of Jonathan Swift (1667 1745) have revealed a number of personas:" a coloniser, a colonist, an ...
... nar for their insights during the seminar: Eric Binnie, John Wrynn, Aimable Twagilimana, Chris Nagle, Virginia La Grand, Jack Healy, Evan Davis, Margaret Mc Peake, Terry J. Campbell, David H. Radcliffe, Jim Persoon, Julie M. Dugger,... more
... nar for their insights during the seminar: Eric Binnie, John Wrynn, Aimable Twagilimana, Chris Nagle, Virginia La Grand, Jack Healy, Evan Davis, Margaret Mc Peake, Terry J. Campbell, David H. Radcliffe, Jim Persoon, Julie M. Dugger, Mary O'Connor, Jill Bradbury, and David ...
Page 1. New Science and the New Species of Writing: Eighteenth-Century Prose Genres Jill Marie Bradbury National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology Genre theory cannot be divorced from ...
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Chaucer and Shakespeare, the global literary icons, play a major role in the digital world. This cross-disciplinary symposium puts the legacies of Chaucer and Shakespeare in conversation with each other. Speakers will explore the... more
Chaucer and Shakespeare, the global literary icons, play a major role in the digital world. This cross-disciplinary symposium puts the legacies of Chaucer and Shakespeare in conversation with each other. Speakers will explore the intersections and connections between the afterlives of Chaucer and Shakespeare in world cultures.