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Rachel Hall
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Rhetoric and Film Studies
Office: 223 Coates Hall
Phone: (225)578-4240
E-mail: rchall@lsu.edu
Website: www.lsu.edu/faculty/rchall
Curriculum Vita
Research Interests:
History and theory of visual culture. Thematic interests include fear and security, cultural memory, aesthetics and politics, gender, and consumer culture. Objects of study include photography, print and digital media, and cultural performance.
Notable publications:
Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009).
“Of Ziploc Bags and Black Holes: The Aesthetics of Transparency in the War on Terror.” The Communication Review 10:4 (2007).
“Patty and Me: Performative Encounters Between an Historical Body and the History of Images.” Text and Performance Quarterly 26:4 (2006).
“Missing Dolly, Mourning Slavery: The Slave Notice as Keepsake.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies 61 (2006).
“It Could Happen to You: Rape Prevention in the Age of Risk Management.” Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy 19:3 (2004).
“Tenderness: A Meditation in Six Parts.” Co-authored with Della Pollock. The Theater Annual: A Journal of Performance Studies 55 (2002).
Teaching:
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CMST 7969 Visual Culture
CMST 7945 Performance and Culture
CMST 4169 Introduction to Visual Rhetoric
CMST 4142 The Art of Protest
CMST 3041 Performance in Everyday Life
CMST 3900 Forms of Memory
HNRS 2013 Surveillance and Culture
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