FY 2008 Annual Report of Achievements - Gallaudet University

Gender Issues in the Writings of Mme De Gouges and Mme De Stäel
Status: Ongoing Begin date: No set date End date: No set date
Principal Investigator(s):
Berdichevsky, Cristina – Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Description:
This is an ongoing project which will result in the publication of a comparative study of the
effect of gender politics in works by two daughters of The Enlightenment from opposite socioeconomic
backgrounds. The purpose of the study is to shed light on possible intersections between
the politics of gender and class and the discourse of equality of The Enlightenment, a topic which is
currently being debated among scholars in the fields of Women’s Studies and 18th Century Studies.
The Germaine de Stäel Society for Revolutionary and Romantic Studies invited the researcher to
discuss her work at its international conference, which will be held at Washington University from
May 8–10, 2009. The conference, Germaine de Stäel Today: Currents and Cross-currents, will focus
mainly on the American accomplishments of the last two decades in the field of Staël studies and
examine new paradigms for Stäel’s studies in the 21st century. In November 2007, the researcher
was invited to deliver a paper entitled “Feminine and Feminist Perspectives in Mme de Stäel’s Anti-
Slavery Discourse” at a regional conference of the American Society for 18th Century Studies
(ASECS) in Atlantic City, N.J. but could not attend due to illness. In November 2008, she will
present a paper entitled “Gender and Politics in Revolutionary France” at a regional conference of
ASECS at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Funding source: Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Gesture and ASL Acquisition
See Psychology.
Investigating the Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Issues That Affect the
Lives of Deaf People in Argentina, Costa Rica, and Mexico
Status: Ongoing Begin date: April 2006 End date: No set date
Principal Investigator(s):
Berdichevsky, Cristina – Foreign Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures
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Other Investigator(s):
Bradford, Stacey – Foreign Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures
Guillermo, Elvia – Multicultural Student
Programs
Rogers, Buck – Gallaudet University alumnus
Jimenez, Alvaro (undergraduate) – Spanish
Description:
Despite a steady increase in the interest in disability and development, only quantitative
research exists, and much of it remains focused on categorizing and defining disabilities in the
framework of a medical model. This project examines Deafness as a lived experience by