Rachel Mazique

Rachel Mazique

Assistant Professor
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Liberal Studies

2025 Submissions

Manuscripts Submitted for Publication

Mazique, Rachel. "Code-Meshing 'Blakdeafemales' foregrounding Intersectionality and the Languages of Black Deaf Communities." In Press. TS - typescript (typed). «

External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee

1/7/2025 - 1/8/2030
     Modern Language Association (MLA) Disability Studies Executive Committee
     Amount: 0 ˜

Uninvited Presentations

Nafiisa, Andi Nadaa, et al. "The Making of RIT/NTID's Antiracist Writing Practices Preview Video." Undergraduate Research Symposium. Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, NY. 31 Jul. 2025. Conference Presentation.

Mazique, Rachel. "Antiracist Writing Pedagogy." RIT Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Research, Scholarship, and Technology (RIT FIRST). Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, NY. 21 Mar. 2025. Poster Session. ˜

Mazique, Rachel, Matthew Houdek, and Martreece Watson. "Anti-Racist, Anti-Ableist, and Anti-Audist Writing Pedagogies?" Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2026 Annual Conference and Our Conversations. CCCC. Cleveland, Ohio. 4 Mar. 2026. Conference Presentation. £

Grants

Mazique, Rachel and Elizabeth Ayers (2024-2028). Eliminating Genes that Cause Deafness: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications. Grant proposal submitted to PAR-25-370: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Small Research Grant (R03 Clinical Trial Optional), National Institutes of Health (NIH). ≠

Mazique, Rachel (2025-2025). Normative Analysis of Stakeholder Perspectives on Eliminating Genes that Cause Deafness. Grant proposal submitted to The Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics, The Greenwall Foundation. ≠

Internal Reports/Manuscripts/Articles

Mazique, Rachel, et al. "The Black Deaf Community’s Fight Against White Language Supremacy" The Hague: Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 1 Aug. 2025. Web. ˜

Mazique, Rachel, et al. "Antiracist Writing Pedagogy: What Does this Mean for Our Students and Faculty?" [NTID Office of Diversity and Inclusion]. Rochester: Rochester Institute of Technology, 24 Oct. 2024. Print.

Mazique, Rachel, et al. "Antiracist Writing Pedagogy for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: A Scoping Review" [NTID Office of Access, Engagement, and Success]. London: Journal of Language Identity and Education, 29 Sep. 2025. Print.

Mazique, Rachel. "Kristi Merriweather and Deaf View/Image Art (De'VIA)" [NTID Dean for Academic Administration]. Rochester: Rochester Institute of Technology, 13 Jan. 2025. Print.

2024 Submissions

Grants

Rachel, Mazique, and Houdek, Matthew (2022-2025). Antiracist Writing Pedagogy: What Does this Mean for RIT/NTID Students and Faculty? Grant proposal submitted to RIT/NTID Anti-Racism Scholarship Fund, NTID Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

2022 Submissions

Book Chapter

Mazique, Rachel, Tiffany L. Panko, and Jess A. Cuculick. "Reproductive and Disability Justice: Deaf Peoples’ Right to be Born." The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature. Ed. Beth Widmaier Capo and Laura Lazzari. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2022. 221-246. Print. ∆

2020 Submissions

Journal Paper

Mazique, Rachel. "Science Fiction's Imagined Futures and Powerful Protests: The Ethics of "Curing" Deafness in Ted Evans's "The End" and Donna William's "When the Dead are Cured"." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 14. 4 (2020): 469-485. Web. «

Book Chapter

Mazique, Rachel. "Language Deprivation and Teacher Positionality when Teaching Academic English to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students." Routledge International Handbook of Research on Writing, 2nd Edition. New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2023. 411-426. Print. ∆

Manuscripts Submitted for Publication

Mazique, Rachel. "Deaf Rights as Human Rights: Delimiting the Human with Literatures of “The Hearing Line”." 4 Oct. 2020. TS - typescript (typed). *

Uninvited Presentations

Mazique, Rachel. "Uncovering A Deaf Bioethics in Nick Sturley’s Milan." Disability Bioethics Panel. Modern Language Association. Seattle, Washington. 9 Jan. 2020. Conference Presentation. £ ˜

2017 Submissions

Book Chapter

Mazique, Rachel C. "Sign Language Peoples’ Right to be Born: The Bioethical Debate in Karawynn Long’s "Of Silence and Slow Time"." Innovations in Deaf Studies: The Role of Deaf Scholars. Ed. Annelies Kusters, Dai O’Brien, and Maartje De Meulder. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2017. 295-329. Print. ∆

Invited Keynote/Presentation

Mazique, Rachel. "Sign Language Peoples' Right to be Born: The Bioethical Debate in Karawynn Long's "Of Silence and Slow Time"." Deaf Scholars and Innovations in Deaf Studies Conference. Heriot-Watt University. Edinburgh, UK. 15 Jun. 2017. Conference Presentation. ∆