From Chaucer’s Wife of Bath to Bad Bunny: Sign Language in Literature, Media, and Popular Culture

From medieval literature to Lengua de Señas Puerto Rico at the Super Bowl, literary/popular discourses have exploited signed languages as cultural difference. This panel invites scholarship on representations of and/or responses to signed language(s).

Deadline for submissions: Monday, March 23, 2026

Rachel Mazique, Rochester Institute of Technology (rcmdls@rit.edu ) Julie E. Singer, Washington University in St Louis (jesinger@wustl.edu )