Title: PhD Student, Technical Communication & Rhetoric
University: Texas Tech University
Email: janene.davison@ttu.edu
Twitter: @janenedavison
Website: janenedavison.com
Description of your work
I am a PhD student of Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University, studying under the direction of Kendall Gerdes. My dissertation will focus on the intersection of fat activism and self-care through the Greek concept of parrhesia or frank speech. I am interested in learning how activists balance their responsibility to themselves and the communities they serve when activism and care are viewed as the effects of distributed agency, rather than individually-directed responses. My other interests include the rhetoric of diets and foodways rhetoric.
I also teach Communication at Galveston College, where in addition to teaching I am wrapping-up serving as the college’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Director. In this capacity I led a team that worked to provide faculty professional development for the purpose of enhancing student academic reading in gateway courses.