Communication, Culture & Critique (Volume 5, Number 3) • 14th August 2024

Theorizing the Role of Courage in Resistance

I examine how Burmese prodemocracy dissident, Aung San Suu Kyi, challenges the epistemological unconscious that guides Western notions of courage and maps its viability for nonviolent political resistance.

Quarterly Journal of Speech (Volume 108, Issue 3) • 22nd June 2022

“It's the Truth About Women—That We Get Lost”

Few figures vivify the struggle over public memory and survival as compellingly as second wave U.S. feminist Andrea Dworkin, who was a visionary and gadfly within the movement.

Southern First Ladies: Culture and Place in White House History (ed. Katherine A.S. Sibley) • 20th January 2021

Edith Bolling Wilson: A “Southern” New Woman

This chapter explores the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. Called by some our "first woman president," Edith exhibited a penchant for enlarged opportunities even as she confirmed Southern traditions.

The Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric and Power (ed. Nathan Crick) • 22nd December 2024

A Hestian Defense of the Oikos

This handbook represents the first comprehensive disciplinary investigation into the relationship between rhetoric and power. My chapter explores the gubernatorial rhetoric of Sarah Huckabee Sanders.