Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice Book Talk with Rachel Kolb and Rebecca Sanchez

Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice (Ecco, 2025) is Rachel Kolb’s debut book about growing up deaf and mainstreamed in the years after the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed. Part memoir, part social commentary, Kolb reflects on the possibilities and stakes of communicating in different languages and sensory forms, from spoken and written English to American Sign Language.

Join the author and respondent Rebecca Sanchez (Fordham University) for a virtual book party, which will include some reflections on translating the insights of Deaf and disability studies into general-audience writing. Moderated by Mara Mills.

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Event is free and open to the public but requires registration.
ASL and live captions will be provided.
Please email accessibility needs to msf440@nyu.edu.
Book can be purchased at various online retailers.

Bios:

Rachel Kolb is a writer whose work explores communication, language, and disability as central components of human experience. A graduate of Stanford University, she was the first signing deaf Rhodes scholar at Oxford before receiving her Ph.D. in English literature from Emory University and then completing a junior fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Her work has been published in The New York Times and The Atlantic, among other venues, and she is the author of the new memoir Articulate (Ecco, 2025).

Rebecca Sanchez is Professor of English at Fordham University. She is the author of Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in Twentieth-Century American Literature (NYU Press, 2015) and co-editor with Mara Mills of the re-release of Pauline Leader’s memoir And No Birds Sing (Gallaudet University Press, 2016) and the collection Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press, 2023). Her research focuses on 20th century literature, communicative difference and poetics.