News from the John W. Kluge Center: Watch Now: The Invention of Miracles with Katie Booth
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Watch Now: The Invention of Miracles with Katie Booth
The John W. Kluge Center interview with author and former Kluge Fellow Katie Booth is now available to watch. Booth is the author of “The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness,” a book that explores a lesser-known side to the legacy of the famous inventor of the telephone. Booth, who grew up in a mixed hearing and deaf family, looks at the history and impact of Bell’s attempts to discourage the use of American Sign Language and encourage speech by deaf people, an effort with a troubling and lasting legacy.
Watch the full event here. For more, read our recent interview with Katie Booth.
Katie Booth teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared in The Believer, Catapult, and Harper’s Magazine, and has been highlighted on Longreads and Longform; “The Sign for This” was a notable essay in the 2016 edition of Best American Essays. Booth is a former Kluge Fellow and worked on “The Invention of Miracles” during that fellowship.
