{"id":509,"date":"2020-09-11T14:44:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/?page_id=509"},"modified":"2020-09-11T14:44:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T14:44:33","slug":"cynthia-ryan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/participants\/cynthia-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewNumberedItemContainer\">\n<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewItemsItemItem freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextTextItem\" role=\"listitem\" data-item-id=\"1266733921\">\n<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextItemWrapper freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextTextItemContainer\">\n<h3 class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextShortText freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextDisabledText freebirdThemedInput\" style=\"text-align: center;\" aria-describedby=\"c372\">Cynthia Ryan<\/h3>\n<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewNumberedItemContainer\">\n<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewItemsItemItem freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextTextItem\" role=\"listitem\" data-item-id=\"1026302425\">\n<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextItemWrapper freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextTextItemContainer\">\n<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextShortText freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextDisabledText freebirdThemedInput\" style=\"text-align: center;\" aria-describedby=\"c381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-510\" src=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-11-at-10.40.07-AM-223x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-11-at-10.40.07-AM-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-11-at-10.40.07-AM-761x1024.png 761w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-11-at-10.40.07-AM-768x1034.png 768w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-11-at-10.40.07-AM.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextShortText freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextDisabledText freebirdThemedInput\" style=\"text-align: center;\" aria-describedby=\"c381\">Associate Professor of English<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewNumberedItemContainer\">\n<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewItemsItemItem freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextTextItem\" role=\"listitem\" data-item-id=\"1122058750\">\n<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextItemWrapper freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextTextItemContainer\">\n<div class=\"freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextShortText freebirdFormviewerViewItemsTextDisabledText freebirdThemedInput\" style=\"text-align: center;\" aria-describedby=\"c384\">University of Alabama at Birmingham<\/div>\n<div aria-describedby=\"c384\"><strong>Description of Work:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div aria-describedby=\"c384\">My work focuses on critiquing cancer discourse in public realms, neoliberal approaches to communicating health and medicine advice, and visual manifestations of cultural values regarding the body. In addition to teaching courses in science writing, medical writing, and magazine writing, I am the founder of Street Smarts, a cancer education program for women facing homelessness in my adopted city of Birmingham, Ala. I believe strongly that RHM scholars should lend our perspectives and voices to public conversations.<\/div>\n<div aria-describedby=\"c384\"><\/div>\n<div aria-describedby=\"c384\"><strong>Socials:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div aria-describedby=\"c384\"><a href=\"https:\/\/CancerHitstheStreets.wordpress.com\">https:\/\/CancerHitstheStreets.wordpress.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Ryan Associate Professor of English University of Alabama at Birmingham Description of Work: My work focuses on critiquing cancer discourse in public realms, neoliberal approaches to communicating health and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/participants\/cynthia-ryan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cynthia Ryan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":93,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-509","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/509\/revisions\/511"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}