TEACHING & TRAINING EXPERIENCE
Rhetorics of Cancer in America
In my dissertation, I contend that American cancer rhetoric is an expansive multimodal rhetorical formation that functions through constitutive means to create a veil of faux unity, a fabled and romanticized cancer community, that obfuscates, erases, silences, and justifies disparities in cancer care.
DISSERTATION
AWARDS
Ph.D.|Georgia State University
M.A.|Texas State University
B.A.|DePaul University
EDUCATION
(Nov 2022). "Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?" The Wizarding World of Harry Potter as a Constructed Site of (Artificial) Collective Memory, Identity, and Resistance. Paper (co-authored with Virginia Massignan) presented at the annual National Communication Association Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana
(May 2022). Constitutive Rhetoric & Negative Identification in Political and Popular Culture Discourses on Cancer. Paper presented at the 20th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America in Baltimore, Maryland.
FEATURED PRESENTATIONS
Vice Chair - SSCA's American Society for the History of Rhetoric
Reviewer for
NCA, RSA, SSCA
Immediate Past President -
CGSA at GSU
NCA & SSCA Division Member -
Public Address
Political Communication
Health Communication
SERVICE


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