Roberta Chevrette
I am a critical rhetorical scholar committed to examining relationships among communication, gender, race, and social justice. My research engages queer, feminist, postcolonial/decolonial, and antiracist frameworks to examine forms of oppression, othering, and resistance in media, social movements, and other cultural spaces.
I am the co-author of the book Dangerous Dames: Representing Female Empowerment in Postfeminist Media (with Heather Hundley and Hillary A. Jones). Published in 2020, this book interrogates contemporary representations of a specific type of dangerous women: the postfeminist hero who is smart, sexy, and proficient with weaponry and technology. Using rhetorical criticism and critical theory, the book contributes to a robust existing conversation about postfeminist media through its examination of a range of contemporary texts, including Kill Bill, Volumes I and II; The Hunger Games; Wonder Woman; Atomic Blonde; Proud Mary; The Bionic Woman; Deus Ex; Dark Matter; and Caprica.
I am currently working on a memoir and documentary project, A Ghost Story: Queer Death, Family Secrets, and the Politics of Remembering, in which I explore secrets surrounding my father’s sexuality, his contracting HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, and his subsequent death by suicide. Positioning this narrative within a socio-historical landscape, this project centers on how queer silences and cultural pasts haunt us. This work marks a new phase of artistic and academic exploration that contributes to the ongoing familial, cultural, and political work of queer survival.
My scholarship can be found in edited volumes including the Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication, and in journals such as Communication Monographs, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Communication Theory, QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies.
Memberships:
International Communication Association
National Communication Association
National Women's Studies Association
Organization for Research on Women and Communication
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Rhetoric Society of America
Western States Communication Association
I am the co-author of the book Dangerous Dames: Representing Female Empowerment in Postfeminist Media (with Heather Hundley and Hillary A. Jones). Published in 2020, this book interrogates contemporary representations of a specific type of dangerous women: the postfeminist hero who is smart, sexy, and proficient with weaponry and technology. Using rhetorical criticism and critical theory, the book contributes to a robust existing conversation about postfeminist media through its examination of a range of contemporary texts, including Kill Bill, Volumes I and II; The Hunger Games; Wonder Woman; Atomic Blonde; Proud Mary; The Bionic Woman; Deus Ex; Dark Matter; and Caprica.
I am currently working on a memoir and documentary project, A Ghost Story: Queer Death, Family Secrets, and the Politics of Remembering, in which I explore secrets surrounding my father’s sexuality, his contracting HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, and his subsequent death by suicide. Positioning this narrative within a socio-historical landscape, this project centers on how queer silences and cultural pasts haunt us. This work marks a new phase of artistic and academic exploration that contributes to the ongoing familial, cultural, and political work of queer survival.
My scholarship can be found in edited volumes including the Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication, and in journals such as Communication Monographs, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Communication Theory, QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies.
Memberships:
International Communication Association
National Communication Association
National Women's Studies Association
Organization for Research on Women and Communication
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Rhetoric Society of America
Western States Communication Association
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Courses: Intercultural Communication, Critical-Cultural Studies,
Communication Theory, Rhetoric and Dis/ability.
Objectives: This activity is designed to help students (1) critically
reflect on cultural norms and their own and others’ pre/
misconceptions related to dis/ability and physical difference in an
intersectional manner, (2) identify and comprehend co-cultural
communication strategies, and (3) improve intercultural
competence, including effectively communicating with and about
people with dis/abilities and physical differences.
Through rhetorical analysis of Glenn Beck’s keynote at the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) Summit in Washington, D.C., and his subsequent “Restoring Courage” rally in Israel, this article examines the construction of a gendered and militarized “state of emergency” in which Israel and the United States stand together as brothers against their enemies in the modern era. In this discursive and political formation, Israel is constructed as a site of perpetual persecution, while anxieties about US global dominance are (mis)placed within its borders. This constructed emergency generalizes the nuances of Palestinian and Israeli experiences, while homogenizing Palestinians into a gendered and racialized terrorist Other. Offering a theorization of masculine assemblages, the authors analyze how, in the post-9/11 security state, the unifica- tion of US–Israeli interests is articulated through multiple interlocking discourses of masculinity. Through careful deconstruction of the masculine assemblages that bind together this epistemological and geo-political formation, this analysis contributes to postcolonial and transnational feminist theorizing by exploring how men embody and construct the nation-state, how discourses of race, religion, and nation assemble together through the concept of masculinity, and how these assemblages provoke states of emergency and impetuses for action.
Book Chapters by Roberta Chevrette
Book Reviews by Roberta Chevrette
the “American Heartland” as a place that progressives leave, author C. J. Janovy tells the story of the ones who stay, putting their heartfelt efforts into fighting local battles that have national impacts.
Teaching Documents by Roberta Chevrette
Courses: Intercultural Communication, Critical-Cultural Studies,
Communication Theory, Rhetoric and Dis/ability.
Objectives: This activity is designed to help students (1) critically
reflect on cultural norms and their own and others’ pre/
misconceptions related to dis/ability and physical difference in an
intersectional manner, (2) identify and comprehend co-cultural
communication strategies, and (3) improve intercultural
competence, including effectively communicating with and about
people with dis/abilities and physical differences.
Through rhetorical analysis of Glenn Beck’s keynote at the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) Summit in Washington, D.C., and his subsequent “Restoring Courage” rally in Israel, this article examines the construction of a gendered and militarized “state of emergency” in which Israel and the United States stand together as brothers against their enemies in the modern era. In this discursive and political formation, Israel is constructed as a site of perpetual persecution, while anxieties about US global dominance are (mis)placed within its borders. This constructed emergency generalizes the nuances of Palestinian and Israeli experiences, while homogenizing Palestinians into a gendered and racialized terrorist Other. Offering a theorization of masculine assemblages, the authors analyze how, in the post-9/11 security state, the unifica- tion of US–Israeli interests is articulated through multiple interlocking discourses of masculinity. Through careful deconstruction of the masculine assemblages that bind together this epistemological and geo-political formation, this analysis contributes to postcolonial and transnational feminist theorizing by exploring how men embody and construct the nation-state, how discourses of race, religion, and nation assemble together through the concept of masculinity, and how these assemblages provoke states of emergency and impetuses for action.
the “American Heartland” as a place that progressives leave, author C. J. Janovy tells the story of the ones who stay, putting their heartfelt efforts into fighting local battles that have national impacts.
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-Peter Lang
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057643
-Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Dames-Representing-Female-Bodied-Postfeminist/dp/1433163012