Jill Marie Bradbury is a professor and chair, Department of Performing Arts, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rcohester Institute of Technology. She holds BA degrees in economics and English from the University of California, Irvine and an MA/PhD in English from Brown University. After specializing in eighteenth-century British economic discourse for many years, she became interested in Shakespeare in ASL and Deaf theater. She has received multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and other organizations to support Deaf and DeafBlind theater projects. Publications include the collaborative essay "Protactile Shakespeare: Theater by/for the DeafBlind," Shakespeare Studies 47 (2019); “Audiences and ASL in Shakespeare Performance,” Shakespeare Bulletin 40.1 (2022); and "Disability Embodiment and Inclusive Aesthetics," forthcoming in the edited collection Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance (2023). With RIT colleague Andy Head, she is writing a book on integrated Deaf/hearing theater that will be published by Palgrave in 2024. Her work has been featured in a Folger Shakespeare Library podcast on Shakespeare in Sign Language (2016) and in Humanities, the Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities (2021).