Department of English at the University of Virginia

Christopher Krentz

(2002)
Associate Professor
American Literature, Deaf and Disability Studies
Director of the American Sign Language Program

Ph.D. Virginia, 2002
M.A. Virginia, 1995
B.A. Yale, 1989

Writing Deafness: the Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Editor, A Mighty Change: An Anthology of Deaf American Writing 1816-1864. Gallaudet University Press, 2000.

“Disability Theory,” in Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of the Novel and Novel Theory (forthcoming).
"The Camera as Printing Press: How Film has Influenced ASL Literature," in Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature, ed. H. Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, and Heidi Rose, U of California P (2006).
"A ‘Vacant Receptacle'? Blind Tom, Cognitive Difference, and Pedagogy," PMLA 120:2 (March 2005): 552-557.
"Duncan Campbell and the Discourses of Deafness," Prose Studies 27: 1 & 2 (April-August 2005): 39-52.
“Frankenstein, Gattaca, and the Quest for Perfection,” in Genetics, Disability, and Deafness, ed. John Vickrey Van Cleve, Gallaudet UP (2004).
"Exploring the 'Hearing Line': Deafness, Laughter, and Mark Twain," in Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. ed. Brenda Brueggeman, Sharon Snyder, and Rosemarie Garland Thomson, MLA Press (2002).
Contributor, The Robert Frost Encyclopedia, ed. Nancy Tuten and John Zubizarreta, Greenwood Press (2000).

Of Susan Burch, Signs of Resistance, and Robert Buchanan, ed., Gaillard in Deaf America, in Sign Language Studies 4:2 (Winter 2004): 198-209.
Of Jim Cohn, Sign Mind: Studies in American Sign Language Poetics, in Sign Language Studies 1.3 (Spring 2001): 316-323.

Editorial Board, Sign Language Studies (1999-present)
MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession (2003-2006)
Coordinator, Annual ASL/Deaf Culture Lecture Series (1995-1999;
2003-present)
2005 Sesquicentennial Associateship, University of Virginia
Finalist, 1998 Seven Society Graduate Fellowship for Superb
Teaching, University of Virginia