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STARKVILLE, Miss.āMississippi State faculty members continue tackling current social issues in the Faculty Book Talk series, this month highlighting Elizabeth Miller, a Department of English associate professor.
With the series hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences and free to all, Millerās discussion is Feb. 23 at 3:30 p.m. in Mitchell Memorial Libraryās Grisham Room and includes a conversation on her book āLiturgy of Change: Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting.ā
The 2023 University of South Carolina Press publication defines civil rights mass meetings as a ātransformative rhetorical and religious experience,ā bringing attention to the pattern of religious genresāsong, prayer and testimonyāthat structured the events. It further delves into ways these genres created rhetorical opportunities for ordinary people to speak up and develop activism.
āThe °®°®Ö±²„ Faculty Book Talk series celebrates academic books and the °®°®Ö±²„ faculty who write them,ā said Eric Vivier, °®°®Ö±²„ associate professor of English and series director. āThese events are great opportunities for faculty to share their research with the °®°®Ö±²„ community and for the °®°®Ö±²„ community to learn about the research happening on campus,ā said Vivier, also a faculty fellow with °®°®Ö±²„ās Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College.
Additional spring Faculty Book Talks will include Pete Smithāassociate professor in the Department of Communicationāon March 22, highlighting his most recent book āBirddogs and Tough Old Broads: Women Journalists of Mississippi and a Century of State Politics, 1880s-1980s.ā Itās a 2023 Lexington Books publicationāāan imprint of Rowman & Littlefield.
Joey Thompson, an assistant professor in the Department of History, will present an April 19 lecture on his book āCold War Country: How Nashvilleās Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism.āĀ The University of North Carolina Press publication is expected to be released April 2.
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