V. Jo Hsu
Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Title of talk: “Im/measurable Truths: Chronic Conditions and Genres of Believability”
Friday, October 17, 9:00 am-10:15 am Central Time
Jo Hsu (They/Them) is an associate professor of Rhetoric & Writing and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. They’re the author of Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics, and their work explores how storytelling shapes policy and culture. They’re currently working on several projects related to anti-trans rhetoric, rhetorics of pathologization, and rhetorics of contested diseases. They’re not sure how anyone is doing deep thinking right now, but they’re grateful for the communities formed in the struggle.
Christa Teston
Professor of English, Ohio State University
Title of talk: “Intervening in Public Health Testimony through New Genres of Witnessing”
Saturday, October 18, 2:30-3:45 pm Central Time
Christa Teston (She/Her) mobilizes multiple methods to study how people navigate uncertainty in technoscientific and biomedical contexts. Her first book, Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2017 and won two national best book awards. Her second book, Doing Dignity: Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care, was published in 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press and draws on analyses of three case studies about how in/dignities emerge in contemporary caretaking contexts. Teston also directs Ohio State’s business, professional, and technical writing courses.
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