Publications
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Culturally Speaking
(2019)
Examines racial and gendered dimensions of voice in American culture, showing how vocal sound helps to shape cultural power dynamics.
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
(2019)
Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Death and the Pearl Maiden
(2019)
Shows how English responses to the Black Death were hidden in plain sight—as seen in the Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poems.
Vaccine Rhetorics
(2020)
Addresses the underlying rhetoric of vaccination debates by examining the full spectrum of viewpoints to develop a nuanced way forward.
How Comics Travel
(2022)
Engages with comics as sites of struggle over representation by developing a new methodology of reading for difference in transnational contexts.
Prevention
(2018-10-16)
Approximately 70% of the global total of people living with HIV/AIDS in 2016 were in sub-Saharan Africa. After delayed governmental responses, the media has been consistently deployed as an essential tool for prevention. ...
Black Love, Black Hate
(2018-11-02)
Felice D. Blake’s Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraracial deceptions, cruelties, and contempt in Black literature. Literary criticism ...
Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas
(2018-10-04)
Most importantly, the book shows how literature constitutes an alternative public sphere for Black people. In a society largely controlled by white supremacist actors and institutions, Black authors have conjured fiction ...
A Nation’s Undesirables
(2024)
"In a moving blend of family history and cutting-edge scholarship, Tracey Owens Patton’s A Nation’s Undesirables synthesizes work in rhetorical postmemory studies, critical adoption studies, Afrofuturism, and more to tell ...
Trafficking Rhetoric
(2024)
"Human trafficking has generated intense global concern, with stories of sex slavery and images of women forced into prostitution so persuasive that states have raced to respond ahead of empirical data and clear definitions ...