The latest essay by Jessy J. Ohl, assistant professor of communication, has been published in The Quarterly Journal of Speech 101.4 (2016): 1-21. That essay, titled “Nothing to See or Fear: Light War and the Boring Visual Rhetoric of U.S. Drone Imagery,” theorizes a transformation in 21st-century war rhetoric in which obstructions in public sensation insulate war from opposition.In […]
Shumona Dasgupta, assistant professor of English, presented the paper titled “Representing the Partition: Memory, Mourning and Trauma in Bengali Cinema” at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association’s annual conference held in Philadelphia Nov. 5-7, 2015.
Gary Richards, associate professor and chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, led the discussion of the common read at the Louisiana Book Festival on Oct. 31 in Baton Rouge. This year’s selection was Harper Lee’s controversial and, to many readers, disappointing Go Set a Watchman.He was also a participant on the panel […]
Elizabeth Wade, adjunct instructor in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, has two flash pieces “Tympanoplasty” and “Exposure” in the inaugural issue of Weirderary, which can be accessed here. Her essay “The Rising” appeared earlier this year in The RS 500, which can be read here.
