{"id":204,"date":"2019-08-28T14:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/?page_id=204"},"modified":"2019-08-28T14:17:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:17:44","slug":"ryan-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/ryan-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-205 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/mitchell_DC_English_Headshots_2018_031-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/mitchell_DC_English_Headshots_2018_031-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/mitchell_DC_English_Headshots_2018_031-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/mitchell_DC_English_Headshots_2018_031-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/mitchell_DC_English_Headshots_2018_031-1200x1803.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><strong>Title: <\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graduate Student<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>University: <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carnegie Mellon University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rmitchel@andrew.cmu.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@ryled_up_<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Description of your work<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My research considers the circulation and uptake of intimacy within biomedical controversies and crises. More specifically, I am interested in how experiences of embodiment, sensation, and desire inform large scale sexual health initiatives. These interests are reflected in my dissertation project, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Private Parts\/Public Selves: The Co-construction of AIDS Prevention before the Discovery of HIV<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which traces the invention of AIDS prevention protocols in the years before and immediately after the isolation of HIV as AIDS\u2019 etiological agent. This project articulates my larger argument that to understand the contemporary controversies that adhere to safer sex education programs, we must account for and historicize the fraught rhetorical processes by which intimacy becomes medicalized as it moves among diverse publics. To support this argument, I enlist diverse methods and methodologies. While my analytic apparatus is informed most directly by work from rhetorical history, I also utilize argument, queer, and critical discourse analytic theories and methods to follow discursive constructions as they move, mutate, and accumulate within and across a variety of sites. Increasingly, my focus is shifting to the intersections of sexual health rhetoric, marketing, and gender, with a specific narrowing in on the strategies by which pharmaceutical companies sell sexual enhancement drugs. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Graduate Student University: Carnegie Mellon University Email: rmitchel@andrew.cmu.edu Twitter: @ryled_up_ Description of your work My research considers the circulation and uptake of intimacy within biomedical controversies and crises. More &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/ryan-mitchell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ryan Mitchell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-204","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}