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Hi, I'm Elizabeth Brewer

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and I am one of the Co-Editors of
Disability Studies Quarterly.

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My main responsibility with the journal,
although Brenda and I do everything,

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is writing decision letters.

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So, I spend a lot of time doing that.

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I am also an Associate Professor

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of English at Central Connecticut State
State University

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And I'm the Director of Composition
there as well.

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I, um, I teach classes in Composition
at all levels

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and Disability Studies classes 
there as well.

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I have a Top Five list of things
that I'm loving right now.

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So, these are in no particular order.

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Number 1 is North by Northwest
by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Love that film.

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Number 2 is basil pesto sauce.

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3 is Ella Fitzgerald's music.

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4 is cooking blogs.

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And 5 is color field paintings.

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Great.

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And I'm Brenda Brueggemann.

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I am the Co-Editor, with Elizabeth

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at Disability Studies Quarterly.

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I was an Editor of DSQ from 2006 to 2012

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in the first iteration when we
brought it to Ohio State University

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for publishing.

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I am a faculty member at the
University of Connecticut.

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So, Elizabeth and I only live

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about 35 minutes from each other, right,

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depending on how traffic is going through

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downtown Hartford.

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And, so, we live fairly close.

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And before this period in

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everybody's life and times,

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we used to be able to meet together,

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quite a lot, and do the work.

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But we meet every week,
editorial meetings.

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I am the primary handler of email.

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Unlike most academics, I actually 
love email,

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and love to write them.

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So, I communicate, and I also have
copyedited a lot of the issues.

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I am, my other field is, yes, 
Rhetoric Studies and Writing Studies.

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I am the Aetna Chair of Writing
at UCONN,

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which means I get to spread out 
all the love

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I possibly can about how wonderful
writing is.

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My Top 5 favorite things,

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which is not just right now,

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but pretty much always, forever:

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Ohio State University Buckeye football,

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Louisville and Kansas basketball,

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all things water, but especially
swimming and kayaking,

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bourbon,

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and potato chips.

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And, Kelsey, would you go next?

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Hi, I'm Kelsey Henry,

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and I'm the new Assistant Editor
with DSQ.

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Very excited about that

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and still figuring out what all
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or could entail in the future.

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At the moment, I'll be working on
copyediting

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for the upcoming 40.4 issue of DSQ.

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So excited to get started with that.

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Outside of my role at DSQ,

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I'm a fourth-year PhD Candidate
in American Studies at Yale.

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So, I just started working on
my dissertation.

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And, anything else about me?

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Generally, my work is at the nexus of

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Critical Black Studies, Disability Studies,

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History of Science and Medicine, and

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Science and Technology Studies.

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And my Top 5, right now, 
in no particular order, includes:

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Brooklyn Blackout Cake,

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Labradoodles,

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True Crime podcasts,

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(that's an always for me),

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Tracy Chapman,

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and platform clogs.

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And I'll pass it over to Ashley.

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Hey, guys, I'm Ashley.

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I am an undergrad Editorial Intern

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this semester at DSQ.

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I've been working on

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finding reviewers for
the issues.

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And besides that, I am an

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English major/senior at UCONN,

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with a minor in Women's Studies.

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And my Top 5 would be:

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watching Hamilton with friends,

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baking apple pie,

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which I did last week,

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cuddling with my cats,
Otis and Finley,

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drinking Yogi tea,

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and mom jeans.

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Alright, and Greta.

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Hello, I'm Greta Schmitz.

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I'm currently a senior at UCONN,

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and I major in English and German
Language and Culture.

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I am an intern, as is Ashley, at DSQ,

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and we've just been finding reviewers,

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and we're going to help copy edit the
upcoming issue.

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I hope to do something in
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after I graduate from UCONN.

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So, learning how an academic journal

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works has been very exciting.

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My Top 5 are:

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the New York Rangers hockey team,

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YA romance novels,

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carrot cake,

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running,

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and German rap music.

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Fabulous.

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And then, we have a

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Communication Access Team,

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I call them the "CAT", the "CATs".

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So, if they would introduce themselves?

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MJ, you're up.

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MJ.

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Hi, I'm Mary Jo Schwee Lochran,

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or, MJ.

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I'm a staff interpreter here at UCONN.

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Good to meet you all.

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I'm Mary Gefert,

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and I'm an affiliate interpreter 
with UCONN.

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Great. Rob?

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And I'm Robert Miller,

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and I am a captioner,

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also an affiliate with UCONN.

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Fabulous.

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Thank you, everyone.