About the lecture
Deportable and Disposable brings a rhetorical lens to a question that has predominantly concerned historians: how do differently situated immigrant populations come to belong within the national space of whiteness, and thus of American-ness?
About the speaker
Lisa A. Flores is professor in the Department of Communication and associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion in the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado. Her research and teaching interests lie in rhetoric, critical race studies and gender/queer studies. Her current work explores the spatiotemporalities of rhetorical race making, asking how we consider the simultaneity of mobility, containment, space and temporality. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including three book prizes for Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of Mexican ‘Illegality;’ the Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award and the inaugural IDEA Award from the National Communication Association. Her new project, Static Mobilities: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Containment, examines what it means to think about race at the intersections of mobility and stoppage.
This talk will take place at Villanova University as part of the annual Transit Talks series with Klein College.