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Kristy Maddux Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Georgia |
Research |
Dr. Maddux is a rhetorical critic with particular interests in religious and gendered rhetorics in both contemporary and historical American contexts. Her current project interrogates popular Christian-themed media texts with respect to their constructions of gender and civic responsibility. Dr. Maddux has published research in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Philosophy & Rhetoric, the Journal of Applied Communication Research, Feminist Media Studies, and elsewhere. Current research projects include studying the preaching and other public rhetoric of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, attending to its rhetorical contributions to the discourses of the New Woman and Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism in the 1920s. Representative Publications: Maddux, K. (2008). The da Vinci Code and the regressive gender politics of celebrating women. Critical Studies in Media Communication 25 (3), 225-248.
Maddux, K. (2006). Finding comedy in theology: A hopeful supplement to Kenneth Burke’s logology. Philosophy & Rhetoric 39 (2), 208-232. Maddux, K. (2004). When patriots protest: The anti-suffrage discursive transformation of 1917. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 7 (3), 283-310. |
Teaching |
Fall 2008: COMM 469—The Discourse of Social Movements COMM 711—Historical/Critical Methods in Communication Research Spring 2009: COMM 401—Interpreting Strategic Discourse COMM 469D—The Discourse of Social Movements: Woman's Rights in the United States |
Contact |
Department of Communication Office: Skinner 2118 |
