Disability Studies Quarterly editorial team introductions Oct. 4, 2020

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.