The Department of Linguistics proudly presents Corinna Hill, Ph.D., who will present on "Paternalistically Yours: A Historical Study of Five Friendships Between Deaf and Hearing Americans from 1840-1920."

How were deaf adults interacting with their hearing peers during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? What kind of friendships were being forged, and was a sense of egalitarianism able to develop in those cross-cultural friendships? This presentation aims to answer those questions by sharing research of how deaf and hearing Americans befriended each other between 1840 to 1920 with five different friendships. This research finds that hearing paternalism towards the deaf was profoundly imbedded into American culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, even among dear friends.

ASL/English translation will be provided.