Quarterly Journal of Speech • 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.

Communication, Culture & Critique • 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.

Women's Studies in Communication • 14th August 2024

The Subversive Power of Survivor Rhetoric

I investigate how a novel archive of survivor testimony intervenes in dominant discourses on sexual assault and builds an alternative community history.

Journal of American Culture • 14th August 2024

A Superhero for Gays?

The Green Lantern hate crime story line provides a compelling opportunity to examine reader response to an important moment in the history of the US comic book industry.

Women's Studies in Communication • 14th August 2024

Rising Against the Third Shift: Reclaiming the Postpartum Body in “A Beautiful Body Project”

Discourses surrounding motherhood function increasingly to police the parameters of women’s bodies during pregnancy and postpartum. Rising against this trend is Jade Beall’s “A Beautiful Body Project” honoring mothers’ bodies in all their diversity. Using feminist rhetorical criticism, we investigate responses to the Facebook post announcing this project to gain an understanding of how commenters respond to Beall’s effort to reclaim and redefine postpartum embodiment.

Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies • 14th August 2024

A "Suitably Dead" Woman

This article investigates the discursive register through which lives become grievable by focusing on a case study of the discourses surrounding the death of U.S. feminist, Andrea Dworkin

Women's Studies in Communication • 14th August 2024

Aung San Suu Kyi and the Rhetoric of Social Protest in Burma

This essay provides a case study of the speech that marks Aung San Suu Kyi's emergence as a leader of the pro-democracy opposition in Burma.

Mothering Outside the Lines • 25th October 2023

Creating a Champion for Women

I investigate the maternal practices of Sylvia Dworkin as seen through the correspondence and public works of her daughter, U.S. feminist Andrea Dworkin.