Assistant Professor of Communication Emily Crosby’s article “Dethroned Victor: The Marginalized Women of Blake Edwards’ Victor/Victoria,” published in the fall 2024 issue of Women & Language, revisits the iconic 1982 film to illuminate how the comedic humiliation of archetypal women characters reinstates patriarchy in seemingly progressive texts. This research paper also explores the anxiety-inducing effects […]
Assistant Professor of Communication Emily Crosby presented her research entitled “It’s Not Just Country Music: The Overlooked Rhetorical Reach of Today’s ‘Bro-Country’” at the 2024 Rhetoric Society of America’s biennial conference. Coined in 2013 by music journalist Jody Rosen as a “frat-boy beach-bum fantasy” for the “young America white dude,” Bro-Country emerged as a widely […]
Associate Professors of Communication, Dr. Adria Goldman and Dr. Elizabeth Johnson-Young, and Assistant Professor of Communication, Dr. Emily Crosby, presented at the Eastern Communication Association’s Annual Conference in Cambridge, MA. Their panel, titled “Social Media and the Changing Current of Health Messaging and Debates,” focused on research surrounding discussions of health, particularly related to diet […]
College students often spend the final weeks of winter break watching movies, playing video games and writing résumés for jobs and internships. Now, a University of Mary Washington offering called the January-term, or “J-term,” allows them to earn coll…
College students often spend the final weeks of winter break watching movies, playing video games and writing résumés for jobs and internships. Now, a University of Mary Washington offering called the January-term, or “J-term,” allows them to earn coll…