Quinn Donover ’16

January 2015

Anthropological Visit to Nepal Exploring Deaf Culture

Quinn Donover ’16 traveled to Nepal to work with the Deaf Association in Kathmandu over January, 2015. She assisted Professor of Linguistic Anthropology Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway in her research on Nepali Sign Language and the ethnoliguistic politics of Deafness in specific communities. This included conducting interviews, making video recordings and participating in fieldwork alongside Professor Hoffmann-Dilloway. Quinn saw this opportunity as a way to learn about the Deaf community in Nepal, especially since she went on to spend her next semester at Gaulladet University in D.C., the only Deaf liberal arts school in the world. At Oberlin, Quinn majors in Psychology and has declared a minor in Anthropology as a means of building a curriculum that explores Linguistics. She has taught the American Sign Language Exco at Oberlin for two semesters.