Noah Buchholz (Humanities Council and Linguistics) and Peter Cook (Humanities Council and Linguistics) were recently featured in The New York Times in an article titled “Guggenheim Offers the Poetry of Motion: Sign Language Verses.”
Buchholz was invited to share his poem, “The Moonlight,” on stage during Sound/Off: An Evening of Poetry, held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on December 11, 2024. Cook, an ASL poet who joined Princeton in September as a senior lecturer, was also in attendance. The event, organized by Meg Day, the Guggenheim’s 2024 poet in residence, was held as part of a slate of initiatives conceived by Day to highlight sign language poetry and Deaf culture.
“Now that society has largely acknowledged the existence of Deaf culture and sign language, it is time to delve deeper into Deaf culture and learn more about the contributions it can make to mainstream society,” said Buchholz, in the piece.
As director of the American Sign Language program at Princeton, housed in the Humanities Council’s Program in Linguistics, Buchholz has helped to expand ASL course offerings on campus.
This semester, students can take courses in the new ASL sequence as well as upper-level courses in “Deaf and Sign Language in Film,” taught by Buchholz, and “Creativity and American Sign Language,” taught by Cook.
Read the article in The New York Times.
Learn more about the American Sign Language program at Princeton.
