Interview about Sarah Piatt with Dr. Pamela Kincheloe by Dr. Elizabeth Renker

Abstract

Interview with Dr. Pamela Kincheloe, a first-wave scholar of Sarah Piatt. She discusses working as a research assistant to Piatt scholar Paula Bennett as a graduate student at Southern Illinois University; her dissertation on Piatt; her experiences doing archival research; and her time in Ireland researching the Piatt family. Dr. Kincheloe teaches at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. Her scholarship and teaching include deaf literature and culture, cyborg theory, and representations of deafness in film and visual media. Interview conducted via Zoom by Dr. Elizabeth Renker from the Department of English at The Ohio State University.