Dissertation Work-in-Progress Panel
Dissertation Work-in-Progress Panel
Join us February 24, 2023, from 10:30-11:30 AM to hear about the great ongoing work of our PhD students, Britt Starr, Elizabeth Catchmark, and Roberto Leon! This is our first Language, Writing, and Rhetoric Series event of Spring 2023!
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About the Speakers:
Britt Starr is a PhD candidate in rhetoric at the University of Maryland pursuing graduate certificates in women’s studies and digital studies. She is particularly interested in the rhetorical processes that enable social transformation and the roles that evolving communication technologies play. Her dissertation explores how teen activists from Generation Z use social media to challenge gendered, racialized, and age-specific anger norms that have long made it difficult for young activist women to be heard.
Elizabeth Catchmark's work reads the long black freedom struggle as a kind of healthcare advocacy, attending to the ways black liberation activists and cultural producers theorized health and developed policy approaches to national care. The heart of her project is the claim that black activism is always already about the right to be healthy, in part through exposing the physical violence of white supremacy that manifests in medical exploitation and neglect.
Roberto Leon is a doctoral candidate in the language, writing, and rhetoric program. His research, teaching, and service centers on issues of dialogue, form, and agency through a historical/comparative lens.