Hi, I'm Elizabeth Brewer
and I am one of the Co-Editors of Disability Studies Quarterly.
My main responsibility with the journal, although Brenda and I do everything,
is writing decision letters.
So, I spend a lot of time doing that.
I am also an Associate Professor
of English at Central Connecticut State State University
And I'm the Director of Composition there as well.
I, um, I teach classes in Composition at all levels
and Disability Studies classes there as well.
I have a Top Five list of things that I'm loving right now.
So, these are in no particular order.
Number 1 is North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock.
Love that film.
Number 2 is basil pesto sauce.
3 is Ella Fitzgerald's music.
4 is cooking blogs.
And 5 is color field paintings.
Great.
And I'm Brenda Brueggemann.
I am the Co-Editor, with Elizabeth
at Disability Studies Quarterly.
I was an Editor of DSQ from 2006 to 2012
in the first iteration when we brought it to Ohio State University
for publishing.
I am a faculty member at the University of Connecticut.
So, Elizabeth and I only live
about 35 minutes from each other, right,
depending on how traffic is going through
downtown Hartford.
And, so, we live fairly close.
And before this period in
everybody's life and times,
we used to be able to meet together,
quite a lot, and do the work.
But we meet every week, editorial meetings.
I am the primary handler of email.
Unlike most academics, I actually love email,
and love to write them.
So, I communicate, and I also have copyedited a lot of the issues.
I am, my other field is, yes, Rhetoric Studies and Writing Studies.
I am the Aetna Chair of Writing at UCONN,
which means I get to spread out all the love
I possibly can about how wonderful writing is.
My Top 5 favorite things,
which is not just right now,
but pretty much always, forever:
Ohio State University Buckeye football,
Louisville and Kansas basketball,
all things water, but especially swimming and kayaking,
bourbon,
and potato chips.
And, Kelsey, would you go next?
Hi, I'm Kelsey Henry,
and I'm the new Assistant Editor with DSQ.
Very excited about that
and still figuring out what all that entails,
or could entail in the future.
At the moment, I'll be working on copyediting
for the upcoming 40.4 issue of DSQ.
So excited to get started with that.
Outside of my role at DSQ,
I'm a fourth-year PhD Candidate in American Studies at Yale.
So, I just started working on my dissertation.
And, anything else about me?
Generally, my work is at the nexus of
Critical Black Studies, Disability Studies,
History of Science and Medicine, and
Science and Technology Studies.
And my Top 5, right now, in no particular order, includes:
Brooklyn Blackout Cake,
Labradoodles,
True Crime podcasts,
(that's an always for me),
Tracy Chapman,
and platform clogs.
And I'll pass it over to Ashley.
Hey, guys, I'm Ashley.
I am an undergrad Editorial Intern
this semester at DSQ.
I've been working on
finding reviewers for the issues.
And besides that, I am an
English major/senior at UCONN,
with a minor in Women's Studies.
And my Top 5 would be:
watching Hamilton with friends,
baking apple pie,
which I did last week,
cuddling with my cats, Otis and Finley,
drinking Yogi tea,
and mom jeans.
Alright, and Greta.
Hello, I'm Greta Schmitz.
I'm currently a senior at UCONN,
and I major in English and German Language and Culture.
I am an intern, as is Ashley, at DSQ,
and we've just been finding reviewers,
and we're going to help copy edit the upcoming issue.
I hope to do something in publishing
after I graduate from UCONN.
So, learning how an academic journal
works has been very exciting.
My Top 5 are:
the New York Rangers hockey team,
YA romance novels,
carrot cake,
running,
and German rap music.
Fabulous.
And then, we have a
Communication Access Team,
I call them the "CAT", the "CATs".
So, if they would introduce themselves?
MJ, you're up.
MJ.
Hi, I'm Mary Jo Schwee Lochran,
or, MJ.
I'm a staff interpreter here at UCONN.
Good to meet you all.
I'm Mary Gefert,
and I'm an affiliate interpreter with UCONN.
Great. Rob?
And I'm Robert Miller,
and I am a captioner,
also an affiliate with UCONN.
Fabulous.
Thank you, everyone.