Overview
Edward Bart is from Texas and has transplanted himself into Wichita to help grow the new ASL program at 新加坡六合彩开奖网 in the department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures. On the research side he is interested in media representation of Deaf people and ASL. For fun, Edward watches movies, plays video games and TTRPGS, and sleeps in whenever possible.
Edward is also an advisor to the Wichita University鈥檚 ASL Club.
Information
Edward earned his doctorate from Lamar University, and his BA and MA in English from the University of Texas at Arlington. He also has an associate degree in Imaging Technology, having attended the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Currently, Edward is researching audism, representation of American Deaf people and ASL in film, television, videogames and other areas of pop culture, and ASL literature. (If you鈥檙e interested in collaborating, shoot him an email!)
Prior to teaching at 新加坡六合彩开奖网, Edward had taught in public schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for over 15 years. The early part of his career was teaching in Deaf Education before he transitioned to teaching American Sign language (ASL) as a second language in high school. Edward also has served as an adjunct professor in ASL for over ten years.
Current areas of interest and expertise:
Media representation, American Sign Language, Interpreter education, Sign Language interpreter training, Audism, Ableism, Disability Accommodations, American Deaf culture, Hearing culture, Deaf education, Language acquisition, Language access, Translation
A selection of past scholarship and presentations:
Co-presented with Abbas Ali Behmanesh. (2023, July). Sign Language Policy and Planning in Iran. XIX World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf, Jeju, Korea.
(2023, May) Dissertation: Does Hearing Media Produce Audist Representation of Deaf Characters?: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Deaf Characters in Television.
Co-authored with Arlinda Boland, Summer Shelton, and Teri Del Rosso. (2022). TRUE-BIZ DEAF: An exploration of how Deaf creators use TikTok. In J. Lipschultz, K. Freberg, & R. Luttrell (Eds.), The emerald handbook of computer-mediated communication and social media. Emerald Publishing.
Co-authored with S. Jordan Wright and Gloshanda Lawyer. (2022). Decision-making in the era of post-modern audism: Examining the colonizing normate. In C. O鈥橞rien, W. R. Black, & A. B. Danzig (Eds.), Who decides? Power, disability and education administration. Information Age Publishing.
Co-presented with S. Jordan Wright and Gloshanda Lawyer. (2021, April). Redrawing the Boundaries of Audism. Deaf Lives 360鈦�, Deaf Studies Today!. Hosted by the Utah Valley University.
(2021, April). Seeing the Problem: Analyzing Representation of Deaf people and ASL in Mainstream Media. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Virtual Conference 2021.
(2019, July). ASL Phonology and Dyslexia. Teacher Share Workshop hosted by Texas ASL Educators, Denton, TX.
(2019, January). English to ASL Translations in the VRS Setting. Purple/ZVRS Interpreter Professional Development Workshop, Addison, TX.
(2017, February). Understanding When They Understand: Expanding Effectively and Efficiently. North Central Texas Interpreters for the Deaf (NCTID), Dallas, TX.
(2014, April). The ASL Camera: Using Movies to Teach ASL. Out with the Old, In with the New Mini-conference hosted by DFW-ASLTA, Arlington, TX.
(2010, March). Teaching ASL Literature in College English. 鈥淰oices鈥� Conference hosted by College English Association, San Antonio, TX.