Thursday March 8, 2012 7pm - 8:30pm (1 Hour 30 Minutes)
Lecture / Seminar
phyllis.rippeyoung@acadiau.ca
902-585-1431
It Spins like a Cyclone and Sucks Like a Vampire: US Militarism and the New Homonationalist Fantasy.
In this presentation, Dr. Maggie Werner analyzes the ways that members of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) repeal movement reacted to president Obama’s signing of legislation allowing lesbian, gay, and bisexual people to serve openly in the military. Using rhetorical criticism and transnational feminist theory, she argues that popular discursive crafting of DADT solely as a US civil-rights issue can mask neoliberal aims of globalization and increased US imperialism.
Bio:
Dr. Maggie Werner is Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, specializing in rhetorical criticism and sexuality studies. Her work looks at various ways that identities are discursively constructed and materially enacted and the conditions under which those identities change. Dr. Werner earned her PhD from the University of Arizona and teaches writing with a focus on analysis, argumentation, and style. Her latest research analyzes the rhetoric surrounding the repeal movement for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” In addition to writing and rhetoric, Dr. Werner studies discourses of sex and the ways that language constructs who people are, what they do, and how they talk about both.
This talk is supported by the program in Women's and Gender Studies, the Department of Sociology, and the Arts Lectureship Fund at Acadia University.
phyllis.rippeyoung@acadiau.ca
902-585-1431
It Spins like a Cyclone and Sucks Like a Vampire: US Militarism and the New Homonationalist Fantasy.
In this presentation, Dr. Maggie Werner analyzes the ways that members of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) repeal movement reacted to president Obama’s signing of legislation allowing lesbian, gay, and bisexual people to serve openly in the military. Using rhetorical criticism and transnational feminist theory, she argues that popular discursive crafting of DADT solely as a US civil-rights issue can mask neoliberal aims of globalization and increased US imperialism.
Bio:
Dr. Maggie Werner is Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, specializing in rhetorical criticism and sexuality studies. Her work looks at various ways that identities are discursively constructed and materially enacted and the conditions under which those identities change. Dr. Werner earned her PhD from the University of Arizona and teaches writing with a focus on analysis, argumentation, and style. Her latest research analyzes the rhetoric surrounding the repeal movement for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” In addition to writing and rhetoric, Dr. Werner studies discourses of sex and the ways that language constructs who people are, what they do, and how they talk about both.
This talk is supported by the program in Women's and Gender Studies, the Department of Sociology, and the Arts Lectureship Fund at Acadia University.
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