{"id":209,"date":"2019-08-28T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/?page_id=209"},"modified":"2019-08-28T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:23:23","slug":"julie-mengert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/julie-mengert\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Mengert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-210 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/Picture1-1-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/Picture1-1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/Picture1-1.png 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/>Title: <\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assistant Director of Composition\/Senior Instructor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>University:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virginia Tech<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jmengert@vt.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Description of your work<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My focus as an RHM scholar is on issues pertaining to women; specifically, my research\/dissertation is about the rhetoric that occurs in online breast cancer support groups and explores both what is said in these groups as well as what is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said. I want to examine what the rhetorics of invitation and silence offer as lenses to these conversations. Beyond my research on online breast cancer support groups, I am also interested in how pain is portrayed by and about women. My particular focus is on endometriosis and how women\u2019s pain experiences are expressed by women and how their doctors then understand (or do not understand) these discussions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Assistant Director of Composition\/Senior Instructor University: Virginia Tech Email: jmengert@vt.edu Description of your work My focus as an RHM scholar is on issues pertaining to women; specifically, my research\/dissertation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/julie-mengert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Julie Mengert&#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-209","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209","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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}