Title: Associate Professor
University: Shawnee State University
Email: jscott2@shawnee.edu
Description of your work
In my work, I find that I’m often trying to situate the discourse of a smaller community into larger discursive and ideological conversations. I try to understand how the status quo has been created and reinforced through rhetoric, drawing lines between rhetorical artifacts produced by specific individuals or groups and their broader ideological commitments. In doing so, I’m hoping to find opportunities to shift the way we speak about the status quo in order to advocate for change. In previous writing, I’ve done this work in relation to the public controversy about vaccines and autism; my current project explores femicide in the United States. In both project, my artifacts consist primarily of texts produced for public consumption—news articles, popular books, documentaries, etc.—as a means of exploring public understanding of these.