Biography
K. Crom Saunders is Associate Professor in the ASL Department at Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches a number of ASL Linguistics, Deaf Studies and Interpreting courses. He is currently the Director of the Deaf Studies BA program, which he helped create in 2014.Saunders began working at Columbia in the Fall of 2009. He holds an MA degree in Creative Writing from California State University, Sacramento (2002). He earned his BA in English from California State University, Northridge (1996). Saunders is actively developing a body of research based on the representation of Deaf people in the media, and how this ties in with the history and current development of ASL and Deaf culture, and also a body of research on ASL translation of the works of Shakespeare.
Instructional Areas
ASL sociolinguistics, Deaf Culture and History, theatrical interpreting
Creative Practice and Research Interests
International Deaf politics, sign language linguistics, Shakespeare ASL translation
Degrees
B.A., English California State University 1996
M.A., English California State University 2003