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- “A 19th Century Physician Answers Popular Yahoo! Inquiries: The ‘Is It Bad?’ Edition”Vollmer, Matthew (Ohio Edit, 2013-09-27)
- "The Art of the Short Story: Helen Phillips and Matthew Vollmer"Vollmer, Matthew; Phillips, H. (LitHub, 2016-07-05)A conversation between writers Helen Phillips and Matthew Vollmer about writing short stories.
- Auteurist Socio-Cultural Critique: Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight as Historical PresentGreene, Justin R. (2017)Twenty-four years and eight films into his career, differing arrays of people are still drawn to Quentin Tarantino and his films. When viewers encounter “written and directed by Quentin Tarantino,” there are certain expectations that accompany these words. In his classic essay “What Is an Author?,” Michel Foucault claims “that an author’s name is not simply an element in a discourse (capable of being either subject or object, of being replaced by a pronoun and the like); it performs a certain role with regard to narrative discourse, assuring a classificatory function” (107). Following Foucault’s thinking, I associate Tarantino’s name with a particular style or mode of filmmaking, because audiences, no matter the racial or gendered dynamics, have granted Tarantino the opportunity to explore his representation of America. Most recently, by immersing a predominantly white male American audience in his depictions of United States society and culture, Tarantino’s films confront white America’s perceptions and epistemologies of American history. Tarantino’s America is violent, seedy, and vulgar. His films take mainstream, white mainstream audiences into a world vastly different from their own comfortable spaces, through his use of traditionally unrelateable characters...
- Autism and RhetoricHeilker, Paul V.; Yergeau, M. (National Council of Teachers of English, 2011-05)By understanding the verbal and nonverbal manifestations of autism as a rhetorical imperative, a perspective that involves applying Krista Ratcliffe's concept of rhetorical listening, scholars can do much to dissolve the idea of otherness that appears in discussions of this topic.
- Blake and Rousseau on Children's Reading, Pleasure, and ImaginationWelch, Dennis M. (Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2011)
- “Dear 19th Century Physician: The Parenting Edition”Vollmer, Matthew (Ohio Edit, 2013-10-24)
- "Delusions of Grandeur"Vollmer, Matthew (2021-04-16)
- The Devil's Own Art: Topiary in Children's FictionGraham, Kathryn V. (Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2005)
- The Disappearance of Business Communication From Professional Communication Programs in English DepartmentsDubinsky, James M.; Getchell, Kristen (SAGE, 2021-08-18)Since 1985, the field of professional communication has grown in size and reputation while maintaining a space within its primary disciplinary home of the English department. This article relies on historical evidence to examine how a field that was once evenly divided between business communication and technical communication is now technical communication-centric, almost to the exclusion of business communication. The authors pose questions about the field of professional communication and how faculty who consider business communication to be their primary discipline (regardless of their disciplinary home) might play a role in future discussions related to disciplinarity and domains of knowledge.
- Dressing up the author: Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace branding their masculine authorial identities through fashionGreene, Justin R. (Intellect, 2020-10-01)This article explores the use of clothes and other accessories as markers of masculine authorial identity. Fashion and literature are contentious partners, with literature attempting to keep a firm distance from the popular trappings of the fashion world. However, writers have historically used fashion to create their identities beyond the printed word. This can be seen in examples such as Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain and the ways clothing items have become associated with their personae as men of letters. Contemporary writers are no different, yet many continue to exude ambivalence towards clothing having any effect on their images in the literary sphere. Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace are two examples of writers who downplay fashion’s role in their public images. Franzen and Wallace establish their positions at the forefront of American literature not only with their fiction and non-fiction works but also in the ways they adorn their bodies and present them within visual media. Nevertheless, both Franzen and Wallace perform as specific types of masculine authors through their fashion choices. Ultimately, they use fashion to brand their authorial identities in accordance with their literary output. Franzen’s and Wallace’s willing participation in the stylization of their images to meet the masculine standards of authorial identity reveals the preva-lence of gendered stereotypes regarding how authors should be represented within popular culture.
- From Master to Brother: Shifting the Balance of Authority in Ursula K. Le Guin's Farthest Shore and TehanuHatfield, Len (Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1993)
- "Hereafter"Vollmer, Matthew (Damnation, 2021-09-22)
- Ideologies of Intelligibility Onscreen: The Sociolinguistics of Intralingual SubtitlingYu, Jessie; Purtill, Molly; Carroll, Lily; Carter, Sara; Taylor, Jessica; Walker, Abby (2022-11-15)Intralingual subtitling—specifically, translation of audio in one language into non-optional text of the same language—can be used when a speaker’s dialect is considered difficult for target audiences to understand. Thus, these subtitles and the commentary surrounding them offer insights into ideologies of within-language intelligibility. In the present study, we investigate such ideologies from two approaches: by documenting how intralingual subtitles are being used in practice in two reality-based, US cooking shows, and by looking at published complaints about intralingual subtitles (primarily in US/UK English contexts). We find more subtitles for L2-English vs. L1-English speakers in the shows, and metacommentary around subtitling similarly suggests that L1-English subtitling is perceived as more salient and offensive, reflecting broader associations of unintelligibility with non-native speech. The use of subtitles for L1 English outside of noisy environments appears to be limited to certain varieties, such as Scottish or Indian English, suggesting that some L1 varieties of English can be acceptably codified as unintelligible. While the purpose of intralingual subtitles is ostensibly to facilitate communication and have been framed in the literature as tools for breaking down boundaries, both the practice and commentary around these subtitles highlight the largely negative connotations of marking someone as unintelligible.
- imagine we knew all our namesHaltiwanger Morrison, Talisha; Craig, Sherri (Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, 2021)
- In God we troust - Derek Walcott and GodD'Aguiar, Frederick M. (Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2005)
- Introduction: Service-Learning and Professional CommunicationDubinsky, James M.; Bowdon, Melody (2005-04-08)
- “Lots of Prayer, Lots of Emotional Coaching, and Pray it Works out the Best”: Tuning in to Kids in a Rural Appalachian CommunityHernandez, Erika; Carmichael, Katie; Satterwhite, Emily M.; Yanuaria, Chelsea; Dunsmore, Julie (2020-07)Rural Americans face barriers in access to services such as psychoeducation programs. The purpose of this study was to describe how participants in a rural Appalachian community, a geographic location that has been largely underrepresented in the literature, responded to a psychoeducation program about parents’ facilitation of children’s emotional competence. The Tuning in to Kids (TiK) parent education program focuses on improving parents’ awareness of children’s emotions, their ability to promote children’s developing emotional competence, and the strength of the parent– child bond. This work has shown beneficial effects in Australia, yet research is scarce regarding implementation in the United States, particularly with rural populations. The TiK program was delivered in 2 groups of 6 sessions each, with 2 participants in the first group and 7 participants in the second group. To analyze session transcripts, we employed discourse analysis methods from multiple disciplines, including thematic coding, linguistic analysis, and sociocultural analysis. Overall, our interdisciplinary analysis allowed us to draw conclusions about unique ways that both participants and the facilitator contributed to group success. Key results included the emergence of 4 major themes: participants’ questioning/adopting TiK methods, parental support across participants, facilitator’s leveling the hierarchy, and facilitator self-disclosure. Findings support the utility of an interdisciplinary approach to examining parent education in rural Appalachia, a population that is underrepresented in the literature. Further, our findings support parents’ openness to psychoeducation in this community, as well the effectiveness of the facilitator’s integration of locally-relevant content throughout the program.
- Louise Fitzhugh, Marisol, and the Realm of ArtStahl, J. D. (Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1999)
- "Man of the Night"Vollmer, Matthew (2021-04-15)
- Mapping Methodologies When the Platform is on FireJones, Dave; Trice, Michael; Potts, Liza; Baniya, Sweta (ACM, 2023-10-26)This extended abstract focuses on the methodologies used to research, examine, and understand content moderation policies on social media platforms during times of crisis.