About
Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities. It represents the full range of methods, epistemologies, perspectives, and content that the multidisciplinary field of disability studies embraces. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society. (ISSN: 1041-5718; eISSN: 2159-8371).
Editorial Team
Editors-in-Chief, 2018-2021
Dr. Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Professor, Department of English, Aetna Chair of Writing, Director of First-Year Writing Program, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Brenda Jo Brueggemann is Professor of English and the Aetna Endowed Chair of Writing at the University of Connecticut. She also serves as the Director of the university’s First Year Writing Program. Her research clusters around the following areas: disability rhetorics and art; deaf studies and art; writing studies; teaching in higher education. She has authored 3 books, co-authored 3 books, edited or co-edited 7 collections, and published over 60 journal articles or chapters in edited collections. Click here or here to see her faculty website.
Dr. Elizabeth Brewer Olson, Assistant Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University
Elizabeth Brewer Olson is an Assistant Professor of English and the Director of Composition at Central Connecticut State University. Her research focuses on rhetorics of mental disability and accessible composition pedagogies. She has co-authored the Arts and Humanities volume of The SAGE Reference Series on Disability and has published in Composition Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, Kairos, and the Writing Program Administration journal. She teaches classes in composition, rhetoric, and disability studies. Click here to see her faculty website.
Past Editors-in-Chief
2015-2018
Dr. Kim E. Nielsen, University of Toledo
Dr. Allyson Day, University of Toledo
2015
Michael Rembis
Tanja Aho
2012-2014
Bruce Henderson
Noam Ostrander
2007-2012
Brenda Brueggemann
Scot Danforth
2006-2007
Brenda Brueggemann
Stephen Kuusisto
Scot Danforth
2004-2006
Beth Haller
Corinne Kirchner
1995-2003
David Pfeiffer
1995
Beth Haller
Janet Boudreau
1982-1994
Irv Zola
1980-1982
Natalie Allon
Margaret Zahn
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Potential authors are invited to submit manuscripts online via the DSQ website. For detailed information, please visit:
http://dsq-sds.org/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
