Karen Naughton, Ph.D., Lecturer, teaches American Sign Language, Deaf culture, and Deaf History and Literature. She also conducts research on ASL linguistics and gesture.
Bonnie Rudy, M.A., Lecturer, brings a wealth of experience to teaching American Sign Language and Deaf studies. Bonnie has extensive experience in curriculum design and second language pedagogy. She is an active member of AmericanSign Language Teacher Association.
Josephine Santiago, B.A., Lecturer, teaches American Sign Language, fingerspelling, and interpreting. Jo has been an RID certified professional interpreter for more than 25 years. She leads our initiative in developing multimedia courseware.
Barbara Shaffer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, teaches interpreting. Barbara is active in the interpreting community. She conducts research on semantics, grammaticization, and ASL language acquisition. Barbara is coordinator of the interpreting program and serves as practicum supervisor.
Phyllis Perrin Wilcox, Ph.D., Associate Professor, teaches American Sign Language, fingerspelling, and interpreting. Her research interests include metaphor and metonymy in signed languages. She is the author Metaphor in ASL (Gallaudet University Press). Phyllis founded the Signed Language Interpreting Program in 1982.
Sherman Wilcox, Ph.D., Professor, teaches Deaf culture, theory of interpreting, and ASL linguistics. He is also chair of the Department of Linguistics. Wilcox is the author of several books and articles, including Gesture and the Nature of Language (Cambridge University Press), and Vision to Voice (Oxford University Press). Sherman is well known for his work on the acceptance of ASL as a foreign language.