ASL Faculty

The American Sign Language Program is housed within the Humanities Council’s Program in Linguistics. For a full list of linguistics faculty, visit the People page.

Noah Buchholz is Senior Lecturer and Director of the American Sign Language (ASL) Program in the Program in Linguistics. He is also an ASL performing artist, ASL-English translator, and Certified Deaf Interpreter. He is currently a PhD candidate in Religion & Society at Princeton Theological Seminary. His research interests include disability/Deaf studies, political theology, and postcolonial/decolonial studies. He is also interested in translation, literature, theatre, and film. For more information, please visit his website.

Stefanie Amiruzzaman, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Princeton University. She teaches American Sign Language (ASL) courses. She holds a Ph.D. in Evaluation and Measurement, an M.Ed. in Deaf Education, and a B.A. in American Sign Language, all from Kent State University (KSU), Ohio. Previously, she served as an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for ASL/Deaf Studies at West Chester University (WCU), Pennsylvania. Her previous experience of teaching several undergraduate levels of ASL, as well as Deaf Culture courses at the University of Akron (UA) and KSU, both in Ohio. Also, she taught both undergraduate and graduate level ASL courses at Ball State University (BSU), Indiana.

Allison “Alli” Bloom is a lecturer for the American Sign Language (ASL) language sequence in the Department of Linguistics. She is a doctorate student in Educational Leadership and Management at Drexel University. She received her Master of Education from Pennsylvania State University, specializing in Curriculum and Instruction. Her research focused on students’ attitudes and motivation toward learning a second language, specifically toward ASL. She holds a professional certification from the American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA). Previously, she served as an adjunct instructor of ASL at The College of New Jersey and Villanova University. She was also an ASL tutor at Bloomsburg University.

Peter S. Cook is an internationally reputed Deaf performing artist whose works incorporates American Sign Language, pantomime, storytelling, acting, and movement. He has traveled extensively around the country and aboard with Flying Words Project to promote ASL Literature with Kenny Lerner since 1986. Peter has appeared in Live from Off Center’s “Words on Mouth” (PBS) and “United States of Poetry” (PBS) produced by Emmy winner Bob Holman.

Peter was featured at the National Storytelling festival in Jonesborough, Tenn., and the Tales of Graz in Graz, Austria, The Deaf Way II and the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Peter has worked with Deaf storytellers/poets in Europe, Brazil, Israel, and Japan. Peter was invited to the White House to join the National Book Festival in 2003. He also involved in numerous film projects including the ITV’s Signed Stories.

Peter recently moved from Chicago where he was Associate Professor, and the Chair of the ASL Department at Columbia College Chicago. He graduated from East Tennessee State University’s Graduate Studies in Storytelling in 2011.  He received the 1997 Excellence in Teaching award as well as one of the finalists for 2018 Excellence in Teaching award.